{"id":1744,"date":"2008-01-03T09:47:27","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T16:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2008-01-03T09:47:36","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T16:47:36","slug":"carlsbads-first-elected-mayor-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1744","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad&#8217;s First Elected Mayor Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2008\/01\/03\/news\/coastal\/2_03_101_2_08.txt\" target=\"_blank\">The North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is reporting that: &#8220;<strong>William Currier Atkinson Jr.<\/strong>, the first elected mayor of Carlsbad, died peacefully in his Vista home on New Year&#8217;s Day, according to his wife, Charlotte.&#8221; Mayor Bud Lewis remembers Atkinson was also President of the <strong>Army and Navy Academy<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Bill was the first elected mayor,&#8221; Lewis said Wednesday, &#8220;but I remember him more for his dedication to the Army (and) Navy Academy, where he dedicated his life to the school and did what I thought was a great job for them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Atkinson was 76. Our thoughts are with the entire Atkinson family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2008\/01\/03\/news\/coastal\/2_03_101_2_08.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North County Times is reporting that: &#8220;William Currier Atkinson Jr., the first elected mayor of Carlsbad, died peacefully in his Vista home on New Year&#8217;s Day, according to his wife, Charlotte.&#8221; Mayor Bud Lewis remembers Atkinson was also President of the Army and Navy Academy: &#8220;Bill was the first elected mayor,&#8221; Lewis said Wednesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}