{"id":361,"date":"2019-04-30T12:24:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T16:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/?p=361"},"modified":"2019-05-03T12:26:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T16:26:21","slug":"walter-sword-sargeant-at-arms-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/2019\/04\/30\/walter-sword-sargeant-at-arms-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Sword, Sargeant at Arms, Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>House members honor recently retired sergeant-at-arms for two decades of service<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Walter Sword started as a doorkeeper in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>CONCORD, N.H. \u2014 One of the most trusted people at the New Hampshire State House got a heartfelt final sendoff Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Chris Sununu and other state leaders recognized former House Sergeant-at-arms Walter Sword for his many years of service maintaining order, decorum and security on the House floor.<\/p>\n<p>Sword started as a doorkeeper in 1999. He was first elected sergeant-at-arms in 2008 and served until he stepped down in January.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rob Johnson told me he&#8217;d take a chance on me being a doorkeeper,\u201d Sword said. \u201cHe said he&#8217;d cross his fingers and see what happened. And after all those years, he can uncross his fingers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sword was known to bellow \u201cRoll call!\u201d to bring the representatives into the House chamber for votes.<\/p>\n<p>See video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmur.com\/article\/house-members-honor-recently-retired-sergeant-at-arms-for-two-decades-of-service\/27327831\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WMUR.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House members honor recently retired sergeant-at-arms for two decades of service Walter Sword started as a doorkeeper in 1999. CONCORD, N.H. \u2014 One of the most trusted people at the New Hampshire State House got a heartfelt final sendoff Monday. Gov. Chris Sununu and other state leaders recognized former House Sergeant-at-arms Walter Sword for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}