{"id":125968,"date":"2026-05-21T05:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/05\/21\/nemhs-ambulance-service-commissioner-gordon\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-05-21T08:00:27","modified_gmt":"2028-11-06T08:00:27","slug":"nemhs-ambulance-service-commissioner-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/05\/21\/nemhs-ambulance-service-commissioner-gordon\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"NEMHS ambulance service, Commissioner Gordon &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEMHS ambulance service, Commissioner Gordon Oelkers  spoke against the resolution  because he doesn\u2019t feel the county has the authority to run the service. He said if the county doesn\u2019t have control  of a board, the county\u2019s insurance company won\u2019t cover the county in a possible  lawsuit.<br \/>\n\t  \u201cIt\u2019s a lawsuit ready to happen,\u201d Oelkers said. Toavs explained that such a resolution would<\/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\/125968"}],"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=125968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126213,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125968\/revisions\/126213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125968"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=125968"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=125968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}