{"id":98918,"date":"2025-02-13T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/02\/13\/opinion-20250212-0444-090531\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-02-13T05:02:37","modified_gmt":"2027-12-30T05:02:37","slug":"opinion-20250212-0444-090531","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/02\/13\/opinion-20250212-0444-090531\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transparency? Conservative?  Fairness? Equity?<br \/>\n\t  It was interesting to read Sen. Greg Hunter\u2019s \u201cTrial By Fire\u201d article recently.<br \/>\n\t  Sen. Hunter first claimed the virtue of transparency. He then mentioned his first vote, a few minutes into the first day of the 69th Montana Legislative Session. This vote upended the Republican caucus  majority vote in November  to elect leadership and adopt<\/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":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98918"}],"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=98918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98956,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98918\/revisions\/98956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98918"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=98918"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=98918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}