{"id":108762,"date":"2025-08-07T05:01:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/08\/07\/curtis-menz-jr-20250806-0327-449454\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-08-07T05:05:26","modified_gmt":"2028-01-24T05:05:26","slug":"curtis-menz-jr-20250806-0327-449454","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/08\/07\/curtis-menz-jr-20250806-0327-449454\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Curtis Menz Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Curtis Allen Menz Jr. \u201cP-Nut\u201d, 40, of Bismarck, N.D., died Monday, July 21, 2025, in Bismarck.<br \/>\n\t  He was born June 4, 1985, with twin brother \u201cBig M\u201d to \u201cSadie\u201d Wanda Smith and \u201cBaby Allen\u201d Curtis Menz Sr. in Poplar, where he lived the majority of his life.<br \/>\n\t  He loved to tease at work with co-workers, friends and family. He loved spending  time with his family and friends when he could and would always try to help where and when he could. He was a soft-hearted and kind person who always looked towards the positive side of everything.<br \/>\n\t  He loved to travel to powwows  and listen to Mandaree,  Northern Cree and Black Lodge. He enjoyed being at sweats and practicing his cultural way of life. He enjoyed  his sobriety and speaking  to others at meetings, making new friends along the way. He worked hard to obtain his sobriety coins and was working on getting his <\/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\/108762"}],"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=108762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108980,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108762\/revisions\/108980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108762"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=108762"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=108762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}