{"id":36587,"date":"2012-02-12T10:22:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T17:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=36587"},"modified":"2012-02-12T10:22:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T17:22:19","slug":"in-sessions-final-week-lujan-focuses-on-the-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/02\/in-sessions-final-week-lujan-focuses-on-the-present\/","title":{"rendered":"In session\u2019s final week, Luj\u00e1n focuses on the present"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_35278\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35278\" title=\"Lujan, Ben 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Lujan-Ben-2011.jpg\" alt=\"House Speaker Ben Luj\u00e1n\" width=\"270\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Speaker Ben Luj\u00e1n, shown here in early 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In what may be his final days presiding over the N.M. House during a legislative session, Speaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HLUJA\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Luj\u00e1n<\/a>, who isn\u2019t seeking re-election because of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/01\/speaker-lujan-battling-cancer-won%E2%80%99t-seek-re-election\/\" target=\"_blank\">a long battle with cancer<\/a>, is \u201cfocusing on the present,\u201d the Albuquerque Journal is reporting.<\/p>\n<p>From the newspaper:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c\u2026speculation about whether the Namb\u00e9 Democrat would be able to withstand the grind of the 30-day session has been proved largely moot, as Lujan has not missed a day at his familiar spot in front of the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn comments made Friday on the floor of the House, the speaker attributed his ability to keep working to divine intervention of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018The good Lord, I feel, has been in my presence and allowed me to be here even though I have my illness,\u2019 Lujan said. \u2018It seems like being here with you all is a therapy that I enjoy.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/2012\/02\/11\/politics\/wrapping-up.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what may be his final days presiding over the N.M. House during a legislative session, Speaker Ben Luj\u00e1n, who isn\u2019t seeking re-election because of a long battle with cancer, is \u201cfocusing on the present,\u201d the Albuquerque Journal is reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[156,249,107],"class_list":["post-36587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2012-election","tag-ben-lujan","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36587","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=36587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}