{"id":105947,"date":"2018-03-13T10:14:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T15:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/?p=105947"},"modified":"2018-03-13T10:14:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T15:14:32","slug":"longtime-sleepy-eye-mayor-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/longtime-sleepy-eye-mayor-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime Sleepy Eye mayor dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180312Broich.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-105941\" title=\"20180312Broich\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180312Broich-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>One of Sleepy Eye&#8217;s biggest advocates, Jim Broich, died Sunday (3\/11).<\/p>\n<p>Broich served as mayor for the community from 1992 to 2016. He was a city councilman prior to holding that position.<\/p>\n<p>He served the city of Sleepy Eye in so many other ways during his lifetime including volunteering as an EMT for nine years and as Fireman for 34 years.<\/p>\n<p>He also served on the board of Minnesota River Area on Aging and a term as Chair &amp; Vice Chair, MNDOT District 7, ATP, as vice chair,\u00a0South Central EMS board and Region 9 Revolving Loan Committee. Jim was active in the Lions Club, Legion, Disabled Veterans and the Sleepy Eye Collectors Club.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who new Jim also knew of his passions which included\u00a0fishing, hunting, gardening, wine making, bee keeping and craft shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Sleepy Eye&#8217;s biggest advocates, Jim Broich, died Sunday (3\/11). Broich served as mayor for the community from 1992 to 2016. He was a city councilman prior to holding that position. He served the city of Sleepy Eye in so many other ways during his lifetime including volunteering as an EMT for nine years &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-25 09:10:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105948,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105947\/revisions\/105948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}