{"id":49575,"date":"2022-12-22T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-northernplainsindependent-com-uswp*.sitenm.com\/?p=49575?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2024-09-13T15:50:44","modified_gmt":"2027-03-02T15:50:44","slug":"thomas-bracken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2022\/12\/22\/thomas-bracken\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Bracken"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Thomas G. Bracken, 78, died Dec. 8, 2022, at River Ridge Assisted Living in Billings.<br \/>\n\t  He was born Nov. 26, 1944, in Poplar to Ray and Anna (Manning) Bracken. They lived in a two-room house in Homestead until he was 10 years old, where he attended grade school. He then went to high school in Medicine Lake, where he graduated in 1962.<br \/>\n\t  After graduation, he attended  various colleges in Montana until joining the National Guard.<br \/>\n\t  On Nov. 30, 1974, he married  Connie Engelke. On May 9, 1975, they welcomed their only son, Justin.<br \/>\n\t  They farmed and ranched on his family farm west of Froid. In the early 2000s, they built a house overlooking  Smoke Creek near the Engelke farm. He enjoyed raising cattle and helping Justin  with farming and whatever <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49575"}],"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=49575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49734,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49575\/revisions\/49734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49575"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=49575"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=49575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}