{"id":121071,"date":"2026-03-05T05:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/03\/05\/where-does-eastern-montana-start-20260304-0413-520766\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-03-05T05:13:53","modified_gmt":"2029-01-18T05:13:53","slug":"where-does-eastern-montana-start-20260304-0413-520766","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/03\/05\/where-does-eastern-montana-start-20260304-0413-520766\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Where Does Eastern  Montana Start?"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montana is in many ways a land of two halves: a western  Montana of snow-capped mountains and national forests  joined in political unity with an eastern Montana of wide-open plains and flatland  agriculture.<br \/>\n\t  It\u2019s a time-honored divide: peaks versus plains, Missoula  versus Miles City, Flathead versus Fort Peck lakes. But where exactly is the dividing line?<br \/>\n\t  As it turns out, there\u2019s no clear<\/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":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121071"}],"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=121071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121253,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121071\/revisions\/121253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121071"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=121071"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=121071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}