{"id":128575,"date":"2026-06-25T05:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/06\/25\/editorial-20260624-0339-115984\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-06-25T05:16:09","modified_gmt":"2028-12-11T05:16:09","slug":"editorial-20260624-0339-115984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/06\/25\/editorial-20260624-0339-115984\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asking hard questions about our leaders and the decisions they make is what community newspapers do. We knew the question regarding  Wes Headdress\u2019 eligibility  to be elected sheriff would be unpopular \u2014 and it has been.<br \/>\n\t  We\u2019ve been asked why we are \u201cpicking on\u201d Wes Headdress.  We\u2019ve been accused of being racist. We\u2019ve been threatened and defamed on social media. We want to be clear:<\/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\/128575"}],"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=128575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128783,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128575\/revisions\/128783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128575"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=128575"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=128575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}