{"id":133490,"date":"2026-09-10T05:09:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/09\/10\/memories-remain-strong-for-church-members\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-09-10T05:29:17","modified_gmt":"2029-02-26T05:29:17","slug":"memories-remain-strong-for-church-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/09\/10\/memories-remain-strong-for-church-members\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Memories Remain Strong For Church Members"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As longtime members Debbie McGowan and Tara Longtree sadly watched their beloved church, Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Poplar, be destroyed by a fire on Tuesday, Aug. 25, a blessing suddenly  was delivered to them.<br \/>\n\t  One of Poplar\u2019s volunteer firemen handed McGowan, who serves as the church\u2019s bookkeeper, a Bible that wasn\u2019t burned in the church fire.<br \/>\n\t  \u201cThere\u2019s hope. There\u2019s<\/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\/133490"}],"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=133490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133946,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133490\/revisions\/133946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133490"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=133490"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=133490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}