{"id":117187,"date":"2025-12-25T05:03:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T12:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/12\/25\/heavy-winds-rip-across-montana-causing-outages\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-12-25T05:13:05","modified_gmt":"2028-11-09T05:13:05","slug":"heavy-winds-rip-across-montana-causing-outages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/12\/25\/heavy-winds-rip-across-montana-causing-outages\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Winds Rip Across  Montana Causing Outages"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High winds ripped across Montana on Wednesday and early Thursday, knocking out power lines, shutting down roads and generally causing havoc.<br \/>\n\t  Gusts nearing 100 miles per hour battered the state, according to a National  Weather Service report. Thousands across the state lost power, including more than 30,000 people in the Flathead Valley.<br \/>\n\t  On Thursday morning, NorthWestern Energy\u2019s outage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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\/117187"}],"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=117187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117389,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117187\/revisions\/117389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117187"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=117187"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=117187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}