{"id":28282,"date":"2020-07-31T10:45:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T16:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=28282"},"modified":"2020-07-31T10:45:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T16:45:56","slug":"lawmakers-pave-way-for-new-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=28282","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers pave way for new cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state of Nebraska will acquire a veterans\u2019 cemetery in Grand Island under a bill passed July 31.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20157\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20157\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20157\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20157\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenQuick_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"senquick_inline\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Dan Quick&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenQuick_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20157\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenQuick_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Dan Quick\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenQuick_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenQuick_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dan Quick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB911, introduced by Grand Island Sen. Dan Quick, enables the city to gift the former Nebraska Veterans\u2019 Memorial Cemetery and adjacent land to the state in order to establish a new state cemetery for veterans.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also requires the state Department of Veterans Affairs to apply for funding assistance from the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>LB911 passed 49-0 and takes effect immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of Nebraska will acquire a veterans\u2019 cemetery in Grand Island under a bill passed July 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[181],"class_list":["post-28282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-military-and-veterans-affairs","tag-sen-dan-quick"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28288,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28282\/revisions\/28288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}