{"id":102118,"date":"2025-04-10T05:01:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T11:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/04\/10\/richard-brien-sr-20250409-0329-494424\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-04-10T05:06:12","modified_gmt":"2027-09-27T05:06:12","slug":"richard-brien-sr-20250409-0329-494424","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/04\/10\/richard-brien-sr-20250409-0329-494424\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Richard Brien Sr."},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Richard Leroy Brien Sr. died March 23, 2025, in Poplar.<br \/>\n\t  He was born Oct. 20, 1964, to Roberta and George Brien. He lived in Glasgow in his early years of life before going  on the LDS Placement Program in Washington state. When he returned, he lived in Poplar for the remainder of his life.<br \/>\n\t  As a young man, he was always  smiling and friendly to everyone he came in contact with. He was a \u201chands on\u201d type of person and learned different skills in the construction  field. He was the \u201chandy man\u201d who was always there to help whenever family  or friends needed him.<br \/>\n\t  His first job was being a firefighter for about 10 years and then he worked on the pipeline, constructing the waterline north of Poplar. After  that, he worked on building  roads with a number of road construction companies working on and off the reservation.  He also worked on the construction of the Assiniboine  &amp;  Sioux Rural Water Supply System pipeline.<br \/>\n\t  He was currently employed with the Fort Peck Tribes Community Services Department.  This job gave him an opportunity to meet the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102246,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102118\/revisions\/102246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102118"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=102118"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=102118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}