{"id":19987,"date":"2020-08-20T05:03:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps02.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/?p=19987?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2020-09-10T05:34:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T11:34:52","slug":"postal-service-changes-opposed-by-montana-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2020\/08\/20\/postal-service-changes-opposed-by-montana-lawmakers\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Postal Service Changes  Opposed By Montana Lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the coronavirus pandemic  continues to threaten in-person voting, U.S. Senator Jon Tester pushed back on the U.S. Postal Service\u2019s attempts to \u201cdisenfranchise Montanans,\u201d as he put it, this November by not automatically considering election mail to be First Class mail. It has been widely speculated  that the move that could slow down vote by mail by multiple days and significantly increase<\/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\/19987"}],"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=19987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20028,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19987\/revisions\/20028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19987"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=19987"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=19987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}