{"id":124943,"date":"2026-05-07T05:01:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/05\/07\/vicki-vaira-20260506-0335-235472\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-05-07T05:07:17","modified_gmt":"2028-10-23T05:07:17","slug":"vicki-vaira-20260506-0335-235472","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/05\/07\/vicki-vaira-20260506-0335-235472\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Vicki Vaira"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vicki Rochelle Vaira, 68, died April 29, 2026, at her home in Sidney.<br \/>\n\t  She was born July 2, 1957, in Sidney to Guido and La-Vonne (Larson) Vaira. She grew up at the ranch north of Richey, enjoying all aspects of farming and ranching, in particular riding horse. She attended school at Goss School and graduated from Richey High School in 1975 as valedictorian of her class. She went on to attend Rocky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124936,"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\/124943"}],"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=124943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125098,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124943\/revisions\/125098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124943"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=124943"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=124943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}