{"id":646891,"date":"2026-05-16T15:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/646891\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:10:30","slug":"gianforte-proclaims-may-17-a-day-of-prayer-for-rain-amid-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/646891\/","title":{"rendered":"Gianforte proclaims May 17 a Day of Prayer for Rain amid drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HELENA, Mont. \u2014 With drought conditions intensifying across Montana, Gov. Greg Gianforte proclaimed May 17, 2026, as a Day of Prayer for Rain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcross Montana, we are experiencing a persistent and extreme drought,\u201d Gov. Gianforte said. \u201cAfter an unseasonably warm and dry winter, I hope all Montanans will join me in this prayer for rain for the fields of our farmers, for the flow of our rivers and streams, and to mitigate the intensity of our wildfires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrayer is the most powerful tool we have,\u201d the governor continued. \u201cI ask Montanans who are faithful to join Susan and me in coming to God with thanks and praying for rain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HELENA, Mont. \u2014 With drought conditions intensifying across Montana, Gov. Greg Gianforte proclaimed May 17, 2026, as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-646891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}