{"id":2271,"date":"2010-01-11T22:13:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T03:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2271"},"modified":"2013-06-15T00:36:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T05:36:08","slug":"governor-hoevens-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2271","title":{"rendered":"Governor Hoeven&#8217;s running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/hoeven_announce_51203.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>It&#8217;s official: he&#8217;s in. I got there plenty early but there was no parking anywhere NEAR the Doublewood. The banquet room was so packed that they had to open a divider and fill a second room. I was on the press platform next to my friend Racer from KFYR TV and Scott Hennen from AM 1100 radio. One funny thing about Republicans, though&#8230;they don&#8217;t chant for long. Several times the chant was started to bring in the governor, but they had to be restarted. There was lots of applause and enthusiasm though!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s too bad all that ammunition against Senator Byron &#8220;Skybox&#8221; Dorgan won&#8217;t have to be used&#8230;it would be great to expose him for his true legacy. It&#8217;s no wonder he didn&#8217;t want to go against a popular incumbent governor, given all the baggage that is going to stick with our helmet-headed Senator forevermore.<\/p>\n<p>Go get &#8217;em, John! We&#8217;ll be keeping an eye on you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official: he&#8217;s in. I got there plenty early but there was no parking anywhere NEAR the Doublewood. The banquet room was so packed that they had to open a divider and fill a second room. I was on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2271\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}