{"id":1797,"date":"2012-02-02T16:25:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T01:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2012-02-06T15:19:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T00:19:46","slug":"portrait-of-senator-ted-stevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"Portrait of Senator Ted Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Portrait of Ted Stevens by Dean Larson\" src=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Portrait-of-Ted-Stevens-by-Dean-Larson-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"295\" \/>A painting of the late Senator Ted Stevens, commissioned by the Alaska Legislature, has recently been completed\u00a0by Alaskan artist Dean Larson.\u00a0 The portrait will be\u00a0displayed in the Alaska State Capitol.\u00a0 Senator Stevens served\u00a0our state\u00a0in the United States Senate for 40 years.\u00a0\u00a0He also served in the Alaska State House from 1965 through 1968 \u2013\u00a0the last two years as House majority leader.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens&#8217; death in 2010 was a shock to the entire\u00a0state.\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;Uncle Ted&#8221;\u00a0will forever be remembered for his tenacity and love for Alaska.\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0portrait will be\u00a0hung\u00a0on the second floor of the Capitol, and\u00a0will\u00a0serve as a\u00a0reminder of Stevens&#8217; commitment to this state and its bright future.<\/p>\n<p>See the portrait\u00a0at right.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A painting of the late Senator Ted Stevens, commissioned by the Alaska Legislature, has recently been completed\u00a0by Alaskan artist Dean Larson.\u00a0 The portrait will be\u00a0displayed in the Alaska State Capitol.\u00a0 Senator Stevens served\u00a0our state\u00a0in the United States Senate for 40 years.\u00a0\u00a0He also served in the Alaska State House from 1965 through 1968 \u2013\u00a0the last two [&hellip;]<\/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":[79],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-senator-ted-stevens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","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=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1822,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}