{"id":20840,"date":"2016-10-24T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/this-day-in-juneau-history-oct-24-1986\/"},"modified":"2016-10-24T08:00:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T15:00:42","slug":"this-day-in-juneau-history-oct-24-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/this-day-in-juneau-history-oct-24-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in Juneau History: Oct. 24, 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Oct. 24, 1986, Republican Frank Murkowski and Democrat Glenn Olds fought for Alaska\u2019s U.S. Senate seat. Murkowski, who was the incumbent, was described as a \u201cbehind-the-scenes\u201d worker, while Olds was described as \u201ca feisty campaigner and charismatic speechmaker\u201d by a former legislative aide and the Juneau Empire, respectively. <\/p>\n<p>Down in the nation\u2019s Capitol, the federal budget deficit was at $220 billion after the U.S. Congress adjourned on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Back in Juneau, one of the Alaska Power Administration\u2019s main power transformers near Thane stopped for an hour because there were not enough \u201csurge arresters\u201d to handle the powerful transmission system from the Snettisham hydroelectric project.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis Day in Juneau History\u201d is compiled by Empire freelancer Tasha Elizarde, who sums up the day\u2019s events \u2014 30 years ago \u2014 by perusing Empire archives.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Oct. 24, 1986, Republican Frank Murkowski and Democrat Glenn Olds fought for Alaska\u2019s U.S. Senate seat. Murkowski, who was the incumbent, was described as a \u201cbehind-the-scenes\u201d worker, while Olds was described as \u201ca feisty campaigner and charismatic speechmaker\u201d by a former legislative aide and the Juneau Empire, respectively. Down in the nation\u2019s Capitol, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":20841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-20840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20840"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=20840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}