{"id":45702,"date":"2022-09-01T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-northernplainsindependent-com-uswp*.sitenm.com\/?p=45702?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2022-09-01T08:29:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T08:29:53","slug":"oelkers-stresses-importance-of-keeping-amtraks-northern-route-20220831041621","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2022\/09\/01\/oelkers-stresses-importance-of-keeping-amtraks-northern-route-20220831041621\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Oelkers Stresses Importance Of  Keeping Amtrak\u2019s Northern Route"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As support seems to be gaining for the return of Amtrak  service to the southern part of Montana, Roosevelt County Commissioner Gordon  Oelkers stresses the importance  of maintaining Amtrak\u2019s  Empire Builder in the northern part of the state.<br \/>\n\t  A two-day conference was held in Billings last week regarding  the southern route. The Big Sky Passenger Rail Authority, created by 12 county  governments,<\/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\/45702"}],"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=45702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45731,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45702\/revisions\/45731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45702"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=45702"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=45702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}