{"id":54185,"date":"2022-07-28T15:58:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T19:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=54185"},"modified":"2022-07-28T15:58:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T19:58:57","slug":"former-lee-county-commissioner-john-manning-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/07\/former-lee-county-commissioner-john-manning-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Lee County Commissioner John Manning has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"268\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/manning.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54186\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Former Lee County Commissioner John Manning died in his Massachusetts home on Thursday, according to the Lee County government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was a resident of Lee County for more than 40 years with more than 25 years of public service, first as a Cape Coral City Councilman and then on the Lee Board of County Commissioners, where he served from 1988 to 2000 and again from 2010 to 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He served on the Board responsible for implementing the Conservation 20\/20 program in 1996 following a voter referendum and in 2020 helped the county celebrate the milestone of Conservation 20\/20 reaching 30,000 acres of preserved land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For his retirement from the Board in November 2020, his fellow commissioners as well as the Florida Association of Counties honored him with a video tribute, which can be seen here:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WJbAB5ohlYA\">https:\/\/fal.cn\/3qBF2.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Lee County Commissioner John Manning died in his Massachusetts home on Thursday, according to the Lee County government. He was a resident of Lee County for more than 40&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":54186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[1482],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54187,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54185\/revisions\/54187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}