{"id":116137,"date":"2020-04-16T12:19:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T22:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=116137"},"modified":"2020-04-16T12:19:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T22:19:03","slug":"in-memoriam-yamada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/16\/in-memoriam-yamada\/","title":{"rendered":"In memoriam: Former <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> Regent Dennis Yamada"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/system-seal-676-300x169.png\" alt=\"U H System seal\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-112074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/system-seal-676-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/system-seal-676-130x73.png 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/system-seal-676-630x353.png 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/system-seal-676.png 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> regent and state lawmaker Dennis Yamada died Sunday, at the age of 75.<\/p>\n<p>Yamada represented <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> while serving six terms in the state House from 1970 through 1982. He held a seat on the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> Board of Regents from 1985 to 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Yamada also led the Public Utilities Commission as the chair.<\/p>\n<p>No plans have been released on memorial services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> regent also represented <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> in the state Legislature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[72,756],"class_list":["post-116137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-board-of-regents","tag-in-memoriam","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116137"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116148,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116137\/revisions\/116148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}