{"id":132222,"date":"2026-08-27T05:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/08\/27\/large-fire-in-poplar-destroys-church\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-08-27T05:23:08","modified_gmt":"2029-02-12T05:23:08","slug":"large-fire-in-poplar-destroys-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/08\/27\/large-fire-in-poplar-destroys-church\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Large Fire In Poplar Destroys Church"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of presstime Tuesday, Aug. 25, firefi ghters were still on the scene at a structure fire at the Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Poplar. Poplar Assistant  Fire Chief Jonah Riediger said they responded to call at 2:16 a.m. after a report of smoke from the ceiling. Upon arrival, they found heavy smoke, and a four-man team went inside the church. Due to conditions, such as the roof caving  in,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132222"}],"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=132222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132777,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132222\/revisions\/132777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132222"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=132222"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=132222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}