{"id":10326,"date":"2020-06-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=10326"},"modified":"2020-06-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=10326","title":{"rendered":"Mike Winkler, bus driver"},"content":{"rendered":" <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/Mike_Winkler.jpg?w=810\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-750\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n <p><p>Mike Winkler &ndash; a bus driver with the public transportation agency King County Metro Transit in Washington state \u2011 died from complications related to COVID-19 on June 17.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Winkler, 71, passed away after several weeks fighting the virus. His domestic partner Karla Mestl said he contracted COVID-19 in March.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Winkler drove buses for 32 years and worked most of his career out of the North Base in Shoreline.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Patch<\/p>\r\n<\/p><p><\/p>\n \n \n<p><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Winkler &ndash; a bus driver with the public transportation agency King County Metro Transit in Washington state \u2011 died from complications related to COVID-19 on June 17. Winkler, 71, passed away after several weeks fighting the virus. His domestic partner Karla Mestl said he contracted COVID-19 in March. Winkler drove buses for 32 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6698,7019,15],"tags":[8206,1051,114,8051,113,792,1029,6710,6709,6038,6224,6434,6435,8205],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/Mike_Winkler.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9193,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=9193","url_meta":{"origin":10326,"position":0},"title":"Andy Howe, Bus Driver","date":"March 27, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Andy Howe \u2011 a Bus Driver running transit service to hospitals, Nottingham, England \u2013 passed away on 26 March, 2020,\u00a0 after suffering from COVID-19. 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