{"id":46494,"date":"2022-10-20T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-northernplainsindependent-com-uswp*.sitenm.com\/?p=46494?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2022-10-20T05:06:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T05:06:20","slug":"ryan-spotted-bird-20221019034231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2022\/10\/20\/ryan-spotted-bird-20221019034231\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Spotted Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t Ryan Cherokee Spotted Bird, \u201cSun Ka Wakan Hdeska\u201d Spotted Horse, 29, of Brockton  died Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022.<br \/>\n\t  He was born July 28, 1993, to Adrian and Shannon in Billings. He joined brother  Austin Ray to complete their family of four. The family  moved to Norman, Okla., just before his first birthday, allowing him to become acquainted  with his southern family.<br \/>\n\t  He loved fishing with his brother and dad, riding bikes around Norman, skateboarding and playing with his cousins.<br \/>\n\t  He attended preschool through 11th grade in Poplar. He played baseball, football, basketball, cross country and track. He graduated high school from Riverside Indian School in Anadarko, Okla., in May 2012. After graduation, he moved to New Mexico to live near his father.<br \/>\n\t  He attended Job Corps, worked as a security guard and enjoyed working out and running to keep himself in shape. He loved being outside  and the warm climate in New Mexico suited him well. After moving back to Montana,  he attended Fort Peck Community College and worked in construction.<br \/>\n\t  He was a shy, quiet child who was very orderly and meticulous with his toys, cars and figures all lined up perfectly. He paid close attention  to details and was always building elaborate structures and crashing them down with cars to build more.<br \/>\n\t  He adored his brother and was often seen a his \u201cshadow.\u201d He and Austin competed in <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46494"}],"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=46494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46494"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=46494"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=46494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}