{"id":45086,"date":"2022-08-04T05:06:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T11:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-northernplainsindependent-com-uswp*.sitenm.com\/?p=45086?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2022-08-04T05:09:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T05:09:17","slug":"usda-invests-almost-48-million-for-high-speed-internet-access-in-rural-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2022\/08\/04\/usda-invests-almost-48-million-for-high-speed-internet-access-in-rural-montana\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"USDA Invests Almost $48 Million For  High-Speed Internet Access In Rural Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced last week that the Department is investing $401 million to provide access to high-speed internet for 31,000 rural residents and businesses  in 11 states, including almost $48 million in Montana. This announcement  includes a group of investments  from the ReConnect Program,  and an award funded through USDA\u2019s Telecommunications Infrastructure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45086"}],"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=45086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45086"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=45086"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=45086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}