{"id":190813,"date":"2020-01-31T14:30:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T20:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=190813"},"modified":"2020-01-31T14:30:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T20:30:50","slug":"lenz-declares-candidacy-nd-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=190813","title":{"rendered":"Lenz declares candidacy, ND Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-190814\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/LenzShelley-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/LenzShelley-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/LenzShelley-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/LenzShelley-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/LenzShelley-280x175.jpg 280w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/LenzShelley.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>(AP) A veterinarian from western North Dakota said she is seeking the Democratic endorsement for governor. Shelley Lenz made the announcement Friday at the party\u2019s headquarters in Bismarck. Lenz lives in Killdeer and Dickinson and has veterinary clinics in those cities. She previously served as a school board member in Killdeer. Lenz is originally from Ohio and moved to North Dakota in 2007. Republican Gov. Doug Burgum and Lt. Gov. Brent Sanford are seeking a second term. They won with 76% of the vote in 2016. Democrats haven\u2019t won the governor\u2019s office in North Dakota since 1988. The party holds no statewide offices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) A veterinarian from western North Dakota said she is seeking the Democratic endorsement for governor. Shelley Lenz made the announcement Friday at the party\u2019s headquarters in Bismarck. Lenz lives in Killdeer and Dickinson and has veterinary clinics in those cities. She previously served as a school board member in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":190814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190813","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\/190813","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=190813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190816,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190813\/revisions\/190816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/190814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}