Montana is the 4th largest in area, the 8th least populous, and the 3rd least densely populated of the 50 U.S. states.\u00a0 The western half of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges.\u00a0 Smaller island ranges are found throughout the state.\u00a0 The eastern half of Montana is characterized by western prairie terrain and badlands.<\/p>\n
Montana is bordered by Idaho to the west, Wyoming<\/a> to the south, North Dakota<\/a> and South Dakota<\/a> to the east, and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia<\/a>, Alberta<\/a>, and Saskatchewan<\/a> to the north.<\/p>\n The economy is primarily based on agriculture, including ranching and cereal grain farming.\u00a0 Other significant economic resources include oil, gas, coal, hard rock mining, and lumber.\u00a0 The health care, service, and government sectors also are significant to the state’s economy.<\/p>\n The state’s fastest-growing sector is tourism. \u00a0Nearly 13 million tourists annually visit Glacier National Park<\/a>, Yellowstone National Park<\/a>, the Beartooth Highway<\/a>, Flathead Lake<\/a>, Big Sky Resort<\/a>, and other attractions.<\/p>\n The name Montana comes from the Spanish word Monta\u00f1a which in turn comes from the Latin word Montanea, meaning “mountain”, or more broadly, “mountainous country”.\u00a0 Monta\u00f1a del Norte was the name given by early Spanish explorers to the entire mountainous region of the west.<\/p>\n The state’s topography is roughly defined by the Continental Divide<\/a>, which splits much of the state into distinct eastern and western regions.\u00a0 Most of Montana’s 100 or more named mountain ranges are in the state’s western half, most of which is geologically and geographically part of the Northern Rocky Mountains<\/a>.\u00a0 The Absaroka<\/a> and Beartooth<\/a> ranges in the state’s south-central part are technically part of the Central Rocky Mountains.\u00a0 The Rocky Mountain Front<\/a> is a significant feature in the state’s north-central portion, and isolated island ranges that interrupt the prairie landscape are common in the central and eastern parts of the state.\u00a0 About 60 percent of the state is prairie, part of the northern Great Plains<\/a>.<\/p>\n Between many mountain ranges are rich river valleys. The Big Hole Valley<\/a>, Bitterroot Valley<\/a>, Gallatin Valley<\/a>, Flathead Valley<\/a>, and Paradise Valley<\/a> have extensive agricultural resources and multiple opportunities for tourism and recreation.<\/p>\n East and north of this transition zone are the expansive and sparsely populated Northern Plains, with tableland prairies, smaller island mountain ranges, and badlands.<\/p>\n Montana has thousands of named rivers and creeks, 450 miles of which are known for “blue-ribbon” trout fishing<\/a>.\u00a0 Montana’s water resources provide for recreation, hydropower, crop and forage irrigation, mining, and water for human consumption. \u00a0Montana is one of few geographic areas in the world whose rivers form parts of three major watersheds. \u00a0Its rivers feed the Pacific Ocean<\/a>, the Gulf of Mexico<\/a>, and Hudson Bay<\/a>. \u00a0The watersheds divide at Triple Divide Peak<\/a> in Glacier National Park.<\/p>\n There are some 3,000 named lakes and reservoirs in Montana, including Flathead Lake, the largest natural freshwater lake in the western United States. \u00a0Other major lakes include Whitefish Lake<\/a> in the Flathead Valley and Lake McDonald<\/a> and St. Mary Lake<\/a> in Glacier National Park. \u00a0The largest reservoir in the state is Fort Peck Reservoir<\/a> on the Missouri river<\/a>, which is contained by the second largest earthen dam and largest hydraulically filled dam in the world.<\/p>\n Various indigenous peoples lived in the territory of the present-day state of Montana for thousands of years. \u00a0Historic tribes encountered by Europeans and settlers from the United States included the Crow<\/a> in the south-central area; the Cheyenne<\/a> in the very southeast; the Blackfeet<\/a>, Assiniboine<\/a> and Gros Ventres<\/a> in the central and north-central area; and the Kootenai<\/a> and Salish<\/a> in the west. \u00a0The smaller Pend d’Oreille<\/a> and Kalispel<\/a> tribes lived near Flathead Lake and the western mountains, respectively.<\/p>\n The land in Montana east of the continental divide was part of the Louisiana Purchase<\/a> in 1803.<\/p>\n Subsequent to and particularly in the decades following the Lewis and Clark Expedition<\/a>, American, British and French traders operated a fur trade, typically working with indigenous peoples, in both eastern and western portions of what would become Montana.\u00a0 The trading post Fort Raymond<\/a> was constructed in Crow Indian country in 1807.\u00a0 Until the Oregon Treaty of 1846<\/a> land west of the continental divide was disputed between the British and U.S. and was known as the Oregon Country<\/a>. \u00a0The first permanent settlement by Euro-Americans in what today is Montana was St. Mary’s, 1841, near present-day Stevensville<\/a>.\u00a0 In 1847, Fort Benton<\/a> was established as the uppermost fur-trading post on the Missouri River.\u00a0 In the 1850s, settlers began moving into the Beaverhead<\/a> and Big Hole valleys from the Oregon Trail<\/a> and into the Clark’s Fork valley<\/a>.<\/p>\n The first gold discovered in Montana was at Gold Creek<\/a> near present-day Garrison<\/a> in 1852. \u00a0A series of major mining discoveries in the western third of the state starting in 1862 found gold, silver, copper, lead, coal, and later oil, that attracted tens of thousands of miners to the area. \u00a0The richest of all gold placer diggings was discovered at Alder Gulch<\/a>, where the town of Virginia City<\/a> was established. \u00a0Other rich placer deposits were found at Last Chance Gulch<\/a>, where the city of Helena<\/a> now stands, Confederate Gulch<\/a>, Silver Bow<\/a>, Emigrant Gulch<\/a>, and Cooke City<\/a>. \u00a0Gold output from 1862 through 1876 reached $144 million; silver then became even more important. \u00a0The largest mining operations were in the city of Butte<\/a>, which had important silver deposits and gigantic copper deposits.<\/p>\n Before the creation of Montana Territory<\/a>, various parts of what is now Montana were parts of Oregon Territory<\/a>, Washington Territory<\/a>, Idaho Territory<\/a>, and Dakota Territory<\/a>. \u00a0Montana became a United States territory on May 26, 1864. \u00a0The first territorial capital was at Bannack<\/a>. \u00a0The capital moved to Virginia City in 1865 and to Helena in 1875.<\/p>\n As white settlers began populating Montana from the 1850s through the 1870s, disputes with Native Americans ensued, primarily over land ownership and control. \u00a0In 1855, Washington Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens<\/a> negotiated the Hellgate treaty<\/a> between the United States Government and the Salish, Pend d’Oreille, and the Kootenai people of western Montana, which established boundaries for the tribal nations. \u00a0The treaty was ratified in 1859.\u00a0 While the treaty established what later became the Flathead Indian Reservation<\/a>, trouble with interpreters and confusion over the terms of the treaty led whites to believe that the Bitterroot Valley was opened to settlement, but the tribal nations disputed those provisions. \u00a0The Salish remained in the Bitterroot Valley until 1891.<\/p>\n The first U.S. Army post established in Montana was Camp Cooke<\/a> in 1866, on the Missouri River, to protect steamboat traffic going to Fort Benton, Montana. \u00a0More than a dozen additional military outposts were established in the state. \u00a0Pressure over land ownership and control increased due to discoveries of gold in various parts of Montana and surrounding states. \u00a0Major battles occurred in Montana during Red Cloud’s War<\/a>, the Great Sioux War of 1876<\/a>, the Nez Perce War<\/a> and in conflicts with Piegan Blackfeet<\/a>. \u00a0The most notable of these were the Marias Massacre (1870)<\/a>, Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876)<\/a>, Battle of the Big Hole (1877)<\/a> and Battle of Bear Paw (1877)<\/a>. \u00a0The last recorded conflict in Montana between the U.S. Army and Native Americans occurred in 1887 during the Battle of Crow Agency<\/a> in the Big Horn country. \u00a0Indian survivors who had signed treaties were generally required to move onto reservations.<\/p>\n Simultaneously with these conflicts, bison<\/a>, a keystone species<\/a> and the primary protein source that Native people had survived on for centuries were being destroyed.<\/p>\n Some estimates say there were over 13 million bison in Montana in 1870.\u00a0 In 1875, General Philip Sheridan<\/a> pleaded to a joint session of Congress to authorize the slaughtering of herds in order to deprive the Indians of their source of food.\u00a0 By 1884, commercial hunting had brought bison to the verge of extinction; only about 325 bison remained in the entire United States.<\/p>\n Tracks of the Northern Pacific Railroad<\/a> reached Montana from the west in 1881 and from the east in 1882. \u00a0However, the railroad played a major role in sparking tensions with Native American tribes in the 1870s. \u00a0Jay Cooke, the NPR president launched major surveys into the Yellowstone valley in 1871, 1872 and 1873 which were challenged forcefully by the Sioux under chief Sitting Bull<\/a>. \u00a0These clashes, in part, contributed to the Panic of 1873, a financial crisis that delayed construction of the railroad into Montana.\u00a0 Surveys in 1874, 1875 and 1876 helped spark the Great Sioux War of 1876. \u00a0The transcontinental NPR was completed on September 8, 1883, at Gold Creek.<\/p>\n Tracks of the Great Northern Railroad reached eastern Montana in 1887 and when they reached the northern Rocky Mountains in 1890, the GNR became a significant promoter of tourism to Glacier National Park region. \u00a0The transcontinental GNR was completed on January 6, 1893, at Scenic, Washington<\/a>.<\/p>\n In 1881, the Utah and Northern Railway<\/a> a branch line of the Union Pacific<\/a> completed a narrow gauge line from northern Utah<\/a> to Butte.\u00a0 A number of smaller spur lines operated in Montana from 1881 into the 20th century including the Oregon Short Line<\/a>, Montana Railroad<\/a> and Milwaukee Road<\/a>.<\/p>\n Under Territorial Governor Thomas Meagher<\/a>, Montanans held a constitutional convention in 1866 in a failed bid for statehood. \u00a0A second constitutional convention was held in Helena in 1884 that produced a constitution ratified 3:1 by Montana citizens in November 1884. \u00a0For political reasons, Congress did not approve Montana statehood until 1889. \u00a0Congress approved Montana statehood in February 1889 and President Grover Cleveland<\/a> signed an omnibus bill granting statehood to Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Washington once the appropriate state constitutions were crafted.<\/p>\n In July 1889, Montanans convened their third constitutional convention and produced a constitution accepted by the people and the federal government. \u00a0On November 8, 1889 President Benjamin Harrison proclaimed Montana the forty-first state in the union. \u00a0The first state governor was Joseph K. Toole<\/a>.\u00a0 In the 1880s, Helena had more millionaires per capita than any other United States city.<\/p>\n The Homestead Act of 1862<\/a> provided free land to settlers who could claim and “prove-up” 160 acres of federal land in the Midwest and western United States. \u00a0Montana did not see a large influx of immigrants from this act because 160 acres was usually insufficient to support a family in the arid territory.\u00a0 By 1880, there were farms in the more verdant valleys of central and western Montana, but few on the eastern plains.<\/p>\n The Desert Land Act of 1877<\/a> was passed to allow settlement of arid lands in the west and allotted 640 acres to settlers for a fee of $.25 per acre and a promise to irrigate the land. \u00a0After three years, a fee of one dollar per acre would be paid and the land would be owned by the settler. \u00a0This act brought mostly cattle and sheep ranchers into Montana, many of whom grazed their herds on the Montana prairie for three years, did little to irrigate the land and then abandoned it without paying the final fees.\u00a0 Some farmers came with the arrival of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railroads throughout the 1880s and 1890s, though in relatively small numbers.<\/p>\n In the early 1900s, James J. Hill of the Great Northern began promoting settlement in the Montana prairie to fill his trains with settlers and goods. \u00a0Other railroads followed suit.\u00a0 In 1902, the Reclamation Act<\/a> was passed, allowing irrigation projects to be built in Montana’s eastern river valleys. \u00a0In 1909, Congress passed the Enlarged Homestead Act that expanded the amount of free land from 160 to 320 acres per family and in 1912 reduced the time to “prove up” on a claim to three years.\u00a0 In 1916, the Stock-Raising Homestead Act<\/a> allowed homesteads of 640 acres in areas unsuitable for irrigation.\u00a0 This combination of advertising and changes in the Homestead Act drew tens of thousands of homesteaders, lured by free land, with World War I<\/a> bringing particularly high wheat prices. \u00a0In addition, Montana was going through a temporary period of higher-than-average precipitation.<\/p>\n However, farmers faced a number of problems. \u00a0Massive debt was one.\u00a0 Also, most settlers were from wetter regions, unprepared for the dry climate, lack of trees, and scarce water resources.\u00a0 In addition, small homesteads of fewer than 320 acres were unsuited to the environment. \u00a0Weather and agricultural conditions are much harsher and drier west of the 100th meridian.\u00a0 Then, the droughts of 1917\u20131921 proved devastating. \u00a0Many people left, and half the banks in the state went bankrupt as a result of providing mortgages that could not be repaid.\u00a0 As a result, farm sizes increased while the number of farms decreased.<\/p>\n By 1910, homesteaders filed claims on over five million acres, and by 1923, over 93 million acres were farmed.\u00a0 In 1910, the Great Falls<\/a> land office alone saw over 1,000 homestead filings per month, and the peak of 1917\u2013 1918 saw 14,000 new homesteads each year.\u00a0 But a significant drop occurred following drought in 1919.<\/p>\n In 1917\u201318, due to a miscalculation of Montana’s population, approximately 40,000 Montanans, ten percent of the state’s population, either volunteered or were drafted into the armed forces. \u00a0This represented a manpower contribution to the war that was 25 percent higher than any other state on a per capita basis. \u00a0The war created a boom for Montana mining, lumber and farming interests as demand for war materials and food increased.<\/p>\n An economic depression began in Montana after World War I and lasted through the Great Depression<\/a> until the beginning of World War II. \u00a0This caused great hardship for farmers, ranchers, and miners. \u00a0The wheat farms in eastern Montana make the state a major producer; the wheat has a relatively high protein content and thus commands premium prices.<\/p>\n When the U.S. entered World War II<\/a> on December 7, 1941, many Montanans already had enlisted in the military to escape the poor national economy of the previous decade. \u00a0Another 40,000-plus Montanans entered the armed forces in the first year following the declaration of war, and over 57,000 joined up before the war ended. \u00a0These numbers constituted about 10 percent of the state’s total population, and Montana again contributed one of the highest numbers of soldiers per capita of any state.<\/p>\n Many individuals claiming conscientious objector status<\/a> from throughout the U.S. were sent to Montana during the war as smokejumpers<\/a> and for other forest fire-fighting duties.<\/p>\n Montana is a relative hub of beer microbrewing<\/a>, ranking third in the nation in number of craft breweries per capita in 2011.<\/p>\n There are significant industries for lumber and mineral extraction; the state’s resources include gold<\/a>, coal<\/a>, silver<\/a>, talc<\/a>, and vermiculite<\/a>. \u00a0Ecotaxes<\/a> on resource extraction are numerous.<\/p>\n Tourism is also important to the economy with over ten million visitors a year to Glacier National Park, Flathead Lake, the Missouri River headwaters, the site of the Battle of Little Bighorn and three of the five entrances to Yellowstone National Park.<\/p>\n Railroads have been an important method of transportation in Montana since the 1880s. \u00a0Amtrak’s Empire Builder<\/a> train runs through the north of the state, stopping in Libby<\/a>, Whitefish<\/a>, West Glacier<\/a>, Essex<\/a>, East Glacier Park<\/a>, Browning<\/a>, Cut Bank<\/a>, Shelby<\/a>, Havre<\/a>, Malta<\/a>, Glasgow<\/a>, and Wolf Point<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport<\/a> is the busiest airport in the state of Montana, surpassing Billings Logan International Airport<\/a> in the spring of 2013.<\/p>\n Montana’s other major airports include Missoula International Airport<\/a>, Great Falls International Airport<\/a>, Glacier Park International Airport<\/a>, Helena Regional Airport<\/a>, Bert Mooney Airport<\/a>, and\u00a0Sidney\u2013Richland Municipal Airport<\/a>. \u00a0The five following communities have airports designated for commercial service under the Essential Air Service program<\/a>.<\/p>\n Historically, U.S. Route 10<\/a> was the primary east-west highway route across Montana, connecting the major cities in the southern half of the state. \u00a0Still the state’s most important east-west travel corridor, the route is today served by Interstate 90<\/a> and Interstate 94<\/a> which roughly follow the same route as the Northern Pacific. \u00a0U.S. Routes 2<\/a> and 12<\/a> and Montana Highway 200<\/a> also traverse the entire state from east to west.<\/p>\n Montana’s only north-south Interstate Highway is Interstate 15<\/a>. \u00a0Other major north-south highways include U.S. Routes 87<\/a>, 89<\/a>, 93<\/a> and 191<\/a>.<\/p>\n The flag of the state of Montana consists of the image of the Montanan state seal centered on a blue field.<\/p>\n Within the seal, a plow, shovel, and pick rest in a field in front of the Great Falls of the Missouri River. \u00a0The ribbon contains the state motto, Oro y plata (Spanish for “Gold and silver”). \u00a0The current flag was adopted in 1905, and the word “Montana” above the seal was added in 1981.<\/p>\n In 1985, the flag was again modified to specify the font used in “Montana:” Helvetica Bold.\u00a0 Before it was adopted as a state flag, it was used by Montana troops deploying for the Spanish\/American War.<\/p>\n The most familiar nickname for Montana is “The Treasure State” because of the state\u2019s rich mineral reserves.<\/p>\n The mountains of Montana have yielded fortunes in gold and silver since the first substantial deposits were discovered in the mid 1800’s.\u00a0 Montana also has sapphires<\/a> (gemstone symbol of Montana).<\/p>\n Another familiar and competing nickname for Montana is “Big Sky Country,” made popular by a Montana State Highway Department<\/a> promotion in the 1960’s which originated from a book by Alfred Bertram Guthrie Jr<\/a>. titled “Big Sky”<\/a>.<\/p>\n Neither nickname is official and both have been used on important items of state identification including vehicle license plates and United States commemorative state quarters.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The flag of the state of Montana consists of the image of the Montanan state seal centered on a blue field.![\"Montana](\"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/01\/Montana-in-the-United-States-300x186.png\" "\\"\\"")
Origin of the Name:<\/h2>\n
Geography:<\/h2>\n
Topography:<\/h3>\n
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Rivers, Lakes and Reservoirs:<\/h3>\n
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History:<\/h2>\n
Early Days:<\/h3>\n
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Conflicts:<\/h3>\n
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Railroads:<\/h3>\n
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Statehood:<\/h3>\n
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Homesteading:<\/h3>\n
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Montana and World War I:<\/h3>\n
Depression Era:<\/h3>\n
Montana and World War II:<\/h3>\n
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Economy:<\/h2>\n
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Railroad:<\/h3>\n
Air:<\/h3>\n
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Roadways:<\/h3>\n
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Flag of Montana:<\/h2>\n
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State Nickname:<\/h2>\n
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\nWithin the seal, a plow, shovel, and pick rest in a field in front of the Great Falls of the Missouri River. The ribbon contains the state motto, Oro y plata (Spanish for “Gold and silver”). The current flag was adopted in 1905, and the word “Montana” above the seal was added in 1981. In 1985, the flag was again modified to specify the font used in “Montana:” Helvetica Bold. Before it was adopted as a state flag, it was used by Montana troops deploying for the Spanish\/American War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,6,7,41,43,40,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}