{"id":125749,"date":"2026-05-21T05:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/05\/21\/miguel-barrera-20260520-0347-315562\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-05-21T05:05:26","modified_gmt":"2028-11-06T05:05:26","slug":"miguel-barrera-20260520-0347-315562","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/05\/21\/miguel-barrera-20260520-0347-315562\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Miguel Barrera"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Miguel Antonio Barrera was born in Glasgow, Mont., on June 9, 2009. He unexpectedly  passed away on May 9, 2026, in Glasgow, Mont.<br \/>\n\t  Mig was the cutest little guy with a shy mischievous smile that grabbed your heart. He was a very independent  kid, always waiting to do things by himself, no matter what the task.<br \/>\n\t  Mig attended school at Frontier School Elementary and Wolf Point High School. While in elementary school, Mig played basketball and participated in track.<br \/>\n\t  Mig was a social person but might take him a minute to warm up to you. He liked to visit and hang out with his friends and cousins, go for a cruise, play his Xbox or Play-Station, but he also liked to just chill at home.<br \/>\n\t  Mig was very protective of his family and siblings \u2014 he was the big little brother.<br \/>\n\t  Miguel liked to cook and try new things he saw on TikTok.<br \/>\n\t  Miguel was a handsome young man who liked to look good, have his nice bling. He liked his diamond earrings, necklaces, new jeans, t-shirts, hoodies, can\u2019t forget his hat. Oh, and his haircut had to be just right.<br \/>\n\t  Miguel was loved more than he knows and is going to be missed very much.<br \/>\n\t  Miguel is survived by his mother, Willow Lilley of Wolf Point; birth mother,  Heather Martell of Utah; birth father, Orlando Barrera of Wolf Point; his seven sisters  and two brothers: sisters, Ashtyn Hentges and Layna  Jones of Glasgow, Mont., Siera Barrera, Swaya Barrera (Nick) of Wolf Point, A\u2019Aligha <\/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\/125749"}],"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=125749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126003,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125749\/revisions\/126003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125749"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=125749"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=125749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}