{"id":4239,"date":"2014-10-27T18:47:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T00:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=4239"},"modified":"2014-10-27T18:47:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T00:47:50","slug":"a-fine-tribute-to-joe-medicine-crow-on-his-101st-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2014\/10\/a-fine-tribute-to-joe-medicine-crow-on-his-101st-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"A fine tribute to Joe Medicine Crow on his 101st birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4240\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 336px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-4240 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/JMC.png\" alt=\"Medicine Crow\" width=\"336\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Joe Medicine Crow played a drum during a reception for recipients and their families at the White House on Aug. 12, 2009.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/articles\/2014\/10\/27\/the-last-of-the-crowwarchiefsturns101inmontana.html\">really fine profile<\/a> of Joseph Medicine Crow was posted today\u2014on the occasion of Medicine Crow&#8217;s 101st birthday\u2014at Al Jazeera America.<\/p>\n<p>His story is familiar to most people in this part of the world, but this is the most comprehensive piece I&#8217;ve read about him, and it seems to capture his personality very well.<\/p>\n<p>The story was written by Mary Hudetz, a native of Crow Agency and editor-in-chief of Native Peoples Magazine. Here&#8217;s a bit more from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naja.com\/about\/leadership-staff\/\">her profile <\/a>at the website of the Native American Journalists Association, of which she is president:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She is a former editor on The Associated Press\u2019 West Regional Desk in Phoenix, where she filed national breaking news and daily stories on broad range of topics and events in the West. She also worked closely with a team of reporters to develop stories specifically about Native issues and communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She is also the daughter of Janice Little Light Hudetz and Leo Hudetz, chief financial officer for School District 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A really fine profile of Joseph Medicine Crow was posted today\u2014on the occasion of Medicine Crow&#8217;s 101st birthday\u2014at Al Jazeera America. His story is familiar to most people in this part of the world, but this is the most comprehensive piece I&#8217;ve read about him, and it seems to capture his personality very well. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1546,1547,1545,1548],"class_list":["post-4239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-al-jazeera-america","tag-janice-little-light-hudetz","tag-joe-medicine-crow","tag-leo-hudetz","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}