{"id":126902,"date":"2026-06-04T05:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/06\/04\/kolstad-selected-optometrist-of-year\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:19:10","modified_gmt":"2028-11-20T05:19:10","slug":"kolstad-selected-optometrist-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/06\/04\/kolstad-selected-optometrist-of-year\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Kolstad Selected Optometrist Of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolf Point native Dr. Jon Kolstad was recently honored  for his contributions to his profession when he received the Montana Optometric  Association\u2019s Optometrist  of the Year award.<br \/>\n\t  The honor was based on Kolstad\u2019s outstanding achievement, leadership and dedication to his profession and community. There are 180 practicing optometrists in Montana.<br \/>\n\t  Kolstad drives more than 350 miles weekly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126902"}],"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=126902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127290,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126902\/revisions\/127290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126902"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=126902"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=126902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}