{"id":132540,"date":"2026-08-27T05:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/08\/27\/new-scobey-teacher-finds-life-is-blessing\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-08-27T05:42:16","modified_gmt":"2029-02-12T05:42:16","slug":"new-scobey-teacher-finds-life-is-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/08\/27\/new-scobey-teacher-finds-life-is-blessing\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"New Scobey Teacher Finds Life Is Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the new school year started  on Wednesday, Aug. 19, in Scobey, many students and staff members were feeling some stress with the challenges of the first day. Those feelings, however, weren\u2019t anything compared to what new Scobey teacher Pat Hardy felt exactly two years earlier.<br \/>\n\t  On Aug. 19, 2024, Hardy wasn\u2019t in the classroom. Instead, he was on the surgery table for 12 hours with a spontaneous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132533,"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\/132540"}],"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=132540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132866,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132540\/revisions\/132866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132540"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=132540"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=132540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}