{"id":124546,"date":"2026-04-30T05:05:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/04\/30\/weeks-oneal-fourstar-seek-house-31-seat\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-04-30T05:16:46","modified_gmt":"2028-10-16T05:16:46","slug":"weeks-oneal-fourstar-seek-house-31-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/04\/30\/weeks-oneal-fourstar-seek-house-31-seat\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Weeks-O\u2019Neal, FourStar Seek House 31 Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natalie Weeks-O\u2019Neal of Poplar and Lance FourStar of Wolf Point are the two candidates for House District 31. Incumbent Frank Smith isn\u2019t running for re-election.<br \/>\n\t  Both Weeks-O\u2019Neal and FourStar are Democrats. The primary election  is scheduled for Tuesday, June 2. No Republicans have filed for the position.<br \/>\n\t  The candidates answered the following  questions from the Northern  Plains Independent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124539,"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\/124546"}],"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=124546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124755,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124546\/revisions\/124755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124546"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=124546"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=124546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}