{"id":2671,"date":"2007-12-27T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T05:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/12\/senate-president-ben-altamirano-dies\/"},"modified":"2007-12-27T23:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T05:23:00","slug":"senate-president-ben-altamirano-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/12\/senate-president-ben-altamirano-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate President Ben Altamirano dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RdJZJzSe5UI\/AAAAAAAAA6o\/drqUa2pG_-U\/s1600-h\/Altamirano,+Ben.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RdJZJzSe5UI\/AAAAAAAAA6o\/drqUa2pG_-U\/s200\/Altamirano,+Ben.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5031181758647690562\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Senate President <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=250&amp;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Altamirano<\/a>, D-Silver City, died today at his home after suffering from a massive heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>Altamirano, who had served in the Senate since 1971, will be remembered as a hard worker with a warm personality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply saddened by the passing of a great New Mexican and my dear friend, Benny Altamirano,\u201d Gov. Bill Richardson said in a statement released by his office. \u201cBenny was a true statesman whose soft-spoken demeanor and love for the State of New Mexico helped earn him the respect of everyone who crossed his path. Benny will be dearly missed. Barbara and I send our condolences to Benny\u2019s wife, Nina, and his entire family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll have more on this next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate President Ben Altamirano, D-Silver City, died today at his home after suffering from a massive heart attack. Altamirano, who had served in the Senate since 1971, will be remembered as a hard worker with a warm personality. \u201cI am deeply saddened by the passing of a great New Mexican and my dear friend, Benny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}