{"id":33928,"date":"2016-08-15T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/this-day-in-juneau-history-aug-15-1986\/"},"modified":"2016-08-15T08:00:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T15:00:48","slug":"this-day-in-juneau-history-aug-15-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/this-day-in-juneau-history-aug-15-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in Juneau History: Aug. 15, 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Aug. 15, 1986, polls for the upcoming gubernatorial election were showing unexpected outcomes for both parties. Gov. Bill Sheffield\u2019s primary opponent, Steve Cowper, had a slight lead by 3 percent. As for the Republican party, former Gov. Walter Hickel led state Sen. Arliss Sturgulewski by under 5 percent. Because of the huge budget controversy in the past year, a large voter turnout was expected for the election.<\/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 Aug. 15, 1986, polls for the upcoming gubernatorial election were showing unexpected outcomes for both parties. Gov. Bill Sheffield\u2019s primary opponent, Steve Cowper, had a slight lead by 3 percent. As for the Republican party, former Gov. Walter Hickel led state Sen. Arliss Sturgulewski by under 5 percent. Because of the huge budget controversy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"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-33928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33928","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=33928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33928"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}