{"id":115685,"date":"2025-12-04T05:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/12\/04\/poplars-boys-team-features-new-coach-this-season\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-12-04T05:07:44","modified_gmt":"2028-10-19T05:07:44","slug":"poplars-boys-team-features-new-coach-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/12\/04\/poplars-boys-team-features-new-coach-this-season\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Poplar\u2019s Boys\u2019 Team Features New Coach This Season"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poplar\u2019s boys\u2019 basketball team has a new look this season with a different coach and needing to replace several starters from last year.<br \/>\n\t  \u201cOur goals are to improve every day and stay healthy,\u201d Poplar Coach Scott Smoker said.<br \/>\n\t  Smoker is a 2006 graduate of Poplar High School. He coached at the junior high level for four seasons and has coached independent teams for about 10 years.<br \/>\n\t  \u201cI\u2019m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115685"}],"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=115685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115972,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115685\/revisions\/115972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115685"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=115685"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=115685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}