{"id":1158,"date":"2007-07-16T17:32:21","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T22:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2012-03-23T17:32:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T22:32:56","slug":"northern-lights-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1158","title":{"rendered":"Northern Lights Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/aurora_071407-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"257\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>After we got done with the big show Saturday night (see the post below this one) my friend Mike and I headed back to his cabin along Lake Sakakawea. Along the way we saw some familiar lights in the sky. Yep, that&#8217;s right&#8230;after a long dry spell, I was finally going to get to take pictures of the Northern Lights! Here&#8217;s what we saw. I&#8217;m pretty sure the orange glow on the right is from Minot, as we were in a remote corner of Ward County.<\/p>\n<p>I shot up another one of those notorious Minimum Maintenance roads that I&#8217;m known to favor. It seems that no matter where I am, even in a remote spot where I didn&#8217;t even know where I was, I can find those roads. They&#8217;re great for stomping on the brakes and taking pictures. Shortly after we took a couple of snapshots of the auroras and the Milky Way, the sky faded. That&#8217;s okay&#8230;we were fading too, after eleven hours of work. I pointed the truck back toward the lake, got a good night&#8217;s sleep, and made it back to Bismarck in time for church Sunday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After we got done with the big show Saturday night (see the post below this one) my friend Mike and I headed back to his cabin along Lake Sakakawea. Along the way we saw some familiar lights in the sky. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1158\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-northern-lights","category-skies-and-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}