{"id":123027,"date":"2026-04-09T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/04\/09\/bruce-mahlen-20260408-0324-446749\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-04-09T05:04:07","modified_gmt":"2028-09-25T05:04:07","slug":"bruce-mahlen-20260408-0324-446749","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/04\/09\/bruce-mahlen-20260408-0324-446749\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Mahlen"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Bruce Garrett Mahlen, 71, of Shoshoni, Wyo., died March 26, 2026.<br \/>\n\t  Born on Jan. 16, 1955, to Ernest  and Evelyn Mahlen, he grew up with a competitive spirit that defined his life. He was a man who worked hard so he could play harder.<br \/>\n\t  He was preceded in death by his wife, Pat Guidry-Mahlen, who died in 2010.<br \/>\n\t  He was a devoted father to his children, Scott Mahlen, Jason Mahlen, Wendy Nordtome,  Kayla Mahlen and Summer Laven, and a proud grandfather to all of his many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He was a presence you always felt when he was around.<br \/>\n\t  He was always a man testing  his luck at the local casino  playing keno, almost always  leaving with a win and a funny story. If it wasn\u2019t keno, it was most often a game of pool or bowling in his younger  years. He loved cards and <\/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\/123027"}],"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=123027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123424,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123027\/revisions\/123424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123027"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=123027"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=123027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}