{"id":1543,"date":"2011-06-17T14:30:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T22:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2011-09-09T11:58:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T19:58:07","slug":"ben-grussendorfs-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"Ben Grussendorf&#8217;s Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was saddened to hear of the passing of former Representative Ben Grussendorf.\u00a0 Ben was a long-time Southeast leader who had a great impact on our region.\u00a0 He served Sitka in the state house for 20 years, and was elected by his colleagues as Speaker of the House three times; the longest tenure in state history.\u00a0 From drafting the charter of the City &amp; Borough of Sitka to serving 13 years on the Alaska Board of Game, Ben leaves an esteemed legacy and I greatly benefited from his perspective on state issues.\u00a0 My condolences go out to his wife Karen and their family. Next session I will introduce a memorial citation in Ben\u2019s honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was saddened to hear of the passing of former Representative Ben Grussendorf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,7,13],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ben-grussendorf","tag-bert-stedman","tag-sitka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1582,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions\/1582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}