{"id":106802,"date":"2025-07-03T05:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/07\/03\/long-time-house-rep-williams-dies\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-07-03T05:04:02","modified_gmt":"2027-12-20T05:04:02","slug":"long-time-house-rep-williams-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/07\/03\/long-time-house-rep-williams-dies\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Long-time House Rep. Williams Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Williams, Montana\u2019s longest-serving member of the U.S. House, died Wednesday  evening in a Missoula hospital.<br \/>\n\t  The Butte native, who was Montana\u2019s last Democrat elected to the House to date, served nine terms from 1979 to 1997, including two as the state\u2019s at-large representative. Williams was 87.<br \/>\n\t  \u201cHe was a hard-nosed politician  but he had such a soft center,\u201d said Sheena Wilson,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106794,"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\/106802"}],"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=106802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106948,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106802\/revisions\/106948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106802"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=106802"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=106802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}