{"id":104796,"date":"2025-05-29T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/05\/29\/blacklegged-ticks-identified-in-eastern-montana\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-05-29T05:02:32","modified_gmt":"2027-11-15T05:02:32","slug":"blacklegged-ticks-identified-in-eastern-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/05\/29\/blacklegged-ticks-identified-in-eastern-montana\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Blacklegged Ticks Identified In Eastern Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Public Health and Human Services  officials are alerting the public about the recent identification of a tick new to Montana known as Ixodes  scapularis, commonly referred to as a \u201cdeer tick\u201d or \u201cblacklegged tick\u201d.<br \/>\n\t  State health officials report  that over the past year three blacklegged ticks were identified in the state for the first time through active surveillance  conducted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104796"}],"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=104796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104910,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104796\/revisions\/104910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104796"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=104796"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=104796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}