{"id":23266,"date":"2020-10-01T05:03:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T11:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps02.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/?p=23266?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2020-10-01T05:05:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T11:05:04","slug":"lester-decoteau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2020\/10\/01\/lester-decoteau\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Lester DeCoteau"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lester \u201cDale\u201d DeCoteau, 63, died Sept. 24, 2020, in Wolf Point.<br \/>\n\t  He was born on Oct. 8, 1956, to Elmer and Elizabeth DeCoteau  in Poplar. He grew up in Poplar and attended Poplar schools. He graduated from Brockton High School in 1974.<br \/>\n\t  He joined the Navy in 1974 to 1977 and served on the USS Midday. He then returned home to Poplar. He was living in Billings when he met Crystal  Smith. They<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23266"}],"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=23266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23330,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23266\/revisions\/23330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23266"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=23266"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=23266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}