{"id":12111,"date":"2019-04-07T17:32:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T21:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12111"},"modified":"2019-04-07T17:32:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T21:32:17","slug":"speaker-michael-busch-died-earlier-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12111","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Michael Busch Died Earlier Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/politics\/bs-md-mike-busch-20190404-story.html\">Baltimore Sun<\/a> has the story on this sad news. Here is Senate President Mike Miller&#8217;s statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>My  heart is broken for Mike Busch\u2019s family, the State of Maryland, and the  Speaker&#8217;s\u00a0extended family &#8211; elected officials and staff that he has  been a mentor and coach to over his time in public service. Mike has been a friend for years, and has led the state to new heights  of environmentalism and education, while ensuring that a new generation  of leaders move our state forward. He was a true model of a State  Delegate; he cared for every corner of the state, but never forgot about the people he was elected to represent. I will  miss him as a friend and partner in state government and I join all the  state in mourning his passing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baltimore Sun has the story on this sad news. Here is Senate President Mike Miller&#8217;s statement: My heart is broken for Mike Busch\u2019s family, the State of Maryland, and the Speaker&#8217;s\u00a0extended family &#8211; elected officials and staff that he has been a mentor and coach to over his time in public service. Mike has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12111\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker Michael Busch Died Earlier Today<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,143],"tags":[740],"class_list":["post-12111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anne-arundel","category-house-of-delegates","tag-michael-busch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-39l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12112,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12111\/revisions\/12112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}