{"id":1529,"date":"2009-10-27T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/27\/tributes-pour-in"},"modified":"2009-10-27T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T20:10:00","slug":"tributes-pour-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1529","title":{"rendered":"Tributes pour in"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/blogs\/burkablog\/?p=5111&amp;click_code=3681c98344608825aee2a91d38f9e775\">http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/blogs\/burkablog\/?p=5111&amp;click_code=3681c98344608825aee2a91d38f9e775<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the above link. It&#8217;s from Paul Burka&#8217;s blog on Texas Monthly magazine.<\/p>\n<p>It deals with this week&#8217;s death of former state Sen. Teel Bivins. What&#8217;s at least as fascinating as the notation from Burka about a man he knew well are the responses and comments from those who have read it.<\/p>\n<p>Bivins made a huge mark on many folks throughout the state. His imprint was felt far beyond the Panhandle, where he grew up, came of age and returned to carry on his family&#8217;s lucrative business. Then he went a huge step farther by entering the world of partisan politics. He won the state Senate seat in 1988 and became a big-time player in state government.<\/p>\n<p>Bivins no doubt stepped on some toes along the way. But it&#8217;s interesting that the reaction so far to the sad news of his passing, at least on one blog, is so positive and downright affectionate.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/blogs\/burkablog\/?p=5111&amp;click_code=3681c98344608825aee2a91d38f9e775. Take a look at the above link. It&#8217;s from Paul Burka&#8217;s blog on Texas Monthly magazine. It deals with this week&#8217;s death of former state Sen. Teel Bivins. What&#8217;s at least as fascinating as the notation from Burka about a man he knew well are the responses and comments from those who have read &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1529\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tributes pour in<\/span> <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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}