{"id":22906,"date":"2020-09-24T05:01:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T11:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps02.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/?p=22906?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2020-09-24T05:04:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T11:04:24","slug":"local-senator-discusses-legislative-session-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2020\/09\/24\/local-senator-discusses-legislative-session-plans\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Local Senator Discusses Legislative Session Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Frank Smith, D-Poplar, doesn\u2019t believe that meeting through video conferencing is the best route to take once the Montana Legislature goes into session in January.<br \/>\n\t \u201cI hope we don\u2019t do the Legislature through Zoom because you can\u2019t watch the people testify,\u201d Smith said. \u201cYou just don\u2019t get the feeling of the testifiers.\u201d<br \/>\n\t  Last week, the Joint House and Senate Rules Committee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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\/22906"}],"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=22906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22990,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22906\/revisions\/22990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22906"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=22906"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=22906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}