{"id":74230,"date":"2024-01-25T05:01:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T12:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2024\/01\/25\/jason-birdtail-jr-20240124-0430-435883\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2024-09-13T15:42:01","modified_gmt":"2027-03-02T15:42:01","slug":"jason-birdtail-jr-20240124-0430-435883","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2024\/01\/25\/jason-birdtail-jr-20240124-0430-435883\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Jason Birdtail Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Jason Leroy \u201cMeat\u201d Birdtail Jr., Wambdi Inyanke, Running Eagle, 35, died Jan. 13, 2024 in Great Falls.<br \/>\n\t  He was born May 18, 1988 the eldest son of Faith Eagleman  and Jason Birdtail Sr. He attended high school as a Wild Cat at Harlem High School, where he participated  in sports and was known to love basketball.<br \/>\n\t  When he was younger, he traveled to many powwows with family and friends, where he was a top contender  in the grass dance category,  taking home first- and second-place honors. Many memories were created through family trips to powwows  and ceremonies across Montana, Canada, North Dakota  and South Dakota.<br \/>\n\t  He loved to hangout and joke around with his friends and relatives, especially his brothers, Hippo and JohnMel. He was particularly proud of his daughter Amar\u2019e.<br \/>\n\t  He is survived by his daughter, Amar\u2019e Jean Birdtail;  parents, Faith (Jason Sr.) Birdtail; brothers, John Birdtail  and Wallace \u201cHippo\u201d Birdtail;  grandparents, Emerson Birdtail Sr., Delberta Eagleman,  Wallene and Maymee Bear; John and Diana Allen; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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\/74230"}],"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=74230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74403,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74230\/revisions\/74403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74230"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=74230"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=74230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}