{"id":121141,"date":"2026-03-05T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/03\/05\/zinke-to-retire-as-representative-will-finish-term\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-03-05T05:15:12","modified_gmt":"2029-01-18T05:15:12","slug":"zinke-to-retire-as-representative-will-finish-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/03\/05\/zinke-to-retire-as-representative-will-finish-term\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Zinke To Retire As Representative, Will Finish Term"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montana U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke announced Monday, March 2, that he will retire at the end of his current term in Congress and will not seek re-election.<br \/>\n\t  \u201cI have made the decision to leave office at the end of my fourth term and not seek re-election,\u201d Zinke said in his announcement. \u201cI do not take this decision lightly and have informed President Trump, the governor and senior leadership  of<\/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\/121141"}],"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=121141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121257,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121141\/revisions\/121257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121141"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=121141"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=121141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}