{"id":409559,"date":"2010-03-09T12:56:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T17:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.73413"},"modified":"2010-03-09T13:30:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T18:30:20","slug":"opms-michael-mehigen-retires-oversaw-construction-of-rentschler-field-football-stadium-in-east-hartford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/409559","title":{"rendered":"OPM&#8217;s Michael Mehigen Retires; Oversaw Construction Of Rentschler Field Football Stadium in East Hartford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a decade ago,&nbsp;Michael Mehigen was the one to see as Rentschler Field rose from the ground in East Hartford.<\/p>\n<p>Wearing a hard hat, Mehigen gave tours to reporters and others in 2001 as the property was transformed from a simple, flat, empty area off Silver Lane to a state-of-the-art college football stadium. Back in those early days in the winter of 2001, the site was nothing but a deep hole in the ground with tons of dirt being moved around.<\/p>\n<p>Java has the details of his retirement party at Rentschler Field, which included former Gov. John G. Rowland,&nbsp;at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/java\/hc-nujavarent0309.artmar09,0,3562189.column\">http:\/\/www.courant.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/java\/hc-nujavarent0309.artmar09,0,3562189.column<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a decade ago,&nbsp;Michael Mehigen was the one to see as Rentschler Field rose from the ground in East Hartford. Wearing a hard hat, Mehigen gave tours to reporters and others in 2001 as the property was transformed from a simple, flat, empty area off Silver Lane to a state-of-the-art college football stadium. Back in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}