{"id":131890,"date":"2026-08-20T05:01:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/08\/20\/looking-back-on-prairie-trail\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-08-20T05:06:40","modified_gmt":"2029-02-05T05:06:40","slug":"looking-back-on-prairie-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/08\/20\/looking-back-on-prairie-trail\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back On Prairie Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Northeast Montana has had notable success in high school cross country, but we sometimes forget that the area showcased the first Class B boys\u2019 champion in Montana history.<br \/>\n\t  Wearing the maroon and gold of the Poplar Indians, senior Tom Atkinson  raced past 40 other  runners to capture the honor in Billings on Oct. 31, 1964.<br \/>\n\t  Hall of fame mentor Mike Granbois was Atkinson\u2019s coach.<br \/>\n\t\u2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131890"}],"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=131890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132015,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131890\/revisions\/132015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131890"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=131890"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=131890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}