{"id":122046,"date":"2017-05-23T07:54:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T12:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=122046"},"modified":"2017-05-23T08:34:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T13:34:25","slug":"burgum-donates-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=122046","title":{"rendered":"Governor Doug Burgum to donate salary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-116891\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/BurgumDoug-officialpic1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/BurgumDoug-officialpic1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/BurgumDoug-officialpic1-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/BurgumDoug-officialpic1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Gov. Doug Burgum says he\u2019ll donate his salary since taking office in December to addiction recovery and treatment initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Burgum says in a statement that his wife, Kathryn Helgaas Burgum, will announce the initiatives later. Burgum says his donation will be \u201cseed money\u201d in improving addiction treatment statewide.<\/p>\n<p>Helgaas Burgum has said in the past she is a recovering alcoholic and wanted to use her experience to help others.<\/p>\n<p>Burgum\u2019s gross salary for the half-year amounts to about $72,000, and a net of about $51,500 will be donated.<\/p>\n<p>He said he plans to decline a salary starting July 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Gov. Doug Burgum says he\u2019ll donate his salary since taking office in December to addiction recovery and treatment initiatives. Burgum says in a statement that his wife, Kathryn Helgaas Burgum, will announce the initiatives later. Burgum says his donation will be \u201cseed money\u201d in improving addiction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":100801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122052,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122046\/revisions\/122052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/100801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}