{"id":74607,"date":"2024-02-01T05:01:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T12:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2024\/02\/01\/edgar-jones-20240131-0449-420576\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2024-09-13T15:41:56","modified_gmt":"2027-03-02T15:41:56","slug":"edgar-jones-20240131-0449-420576","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2024\/02\/01\/edgar-jones-20240131-0449-420576\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Edgar Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Edgar Jones, 67, of Poplar died Jan. 15, 2024, in Billings.<br \/>\n\t  He graduated from high school May 16, 1977. He then enlisted in the Army as a nuclear specialist from 1979\u2013 1983. After being discharged from the Army, he went on to graduate from the Fort Peck Community College, earning  his associate of arts in general studies in May 1997. He then enrolled in Rocky Mountain College. He graduated  in 2001, earning his associate  and bachelor\u2019s degrees in the process.<br \/>\n\t  He loved family and friends. He was often seen around one or the other. His humor and personality was infectious to those who found themselves in his company.<br \/>\n\t  He enjoyed watching sports, mainly football and basketball. His favorite football  team being the Minnesota  Vikings and his favorite basketball team being the LA Lakers. Also, he was often  seen watching his favorite  TV shows,  Law &amp;  Order, NCIS,  and various other shows. He was always seen carrying a Mountain Dew. It was his all-time favorite drink <\/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\/74607"}],"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=74607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74799,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74607\/revisions\/74799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74607"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=74607"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=74607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}