{"id":2214,"date":"2016-06-30T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/this-day-in-juneau-history-june-30-1986\/"},"modified":"2016-06-30T08:00:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T15:00:45","slug":"this-day-in-juneau-history-june-30-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/this-day-in-juneau-history-june-30-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in Juneau History: June 30, 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 30, 1986, a U.S. Bureau of Mines employee died after falling down near Middle Peak, southeast of Juneau, while he and three other employees were searching for evidence of past mining activity in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The Alaska Department of Revenue was investigating reports that more than 100 people had signed away rights to their Permanent Fund Dividend in exchange for $200 in cash at a Fairbanks bar.<\/p>\n<p>Don Young, the Alaska\u2019s incumbent U.S. Congressman, was running for his eighth consecutive term.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This Day in Juneau History&#8221; is compiled by Empire intern Tasha Elizarde, who sums up the day&#8217;s events \u2014 30 years ago \u2014 by perusing Empire archives. To learn more about the project, click&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/juneauempire.com\/local\/2016-06-03\/more-things-change-more-they-stay-same\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 30, 1986, a U.S. Bureau of Mines employee died after falling down near Middle Peak, southeast of Juneau, while he and three other employees were searching for evidence of past mining activity in the area. The Alaska Department of Revenue was investigating reports that more than 100 people had signed away rights to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":2215,"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-2214","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\/2214","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=2214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}