{"id":1164,"date":"2007-07-19T17:34:48","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T22:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2012-03-23T17:35:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T22:35:18","slug":"those-beautiful-dakota-seas-of-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1164","title":{"rendered":"Those beautiful Dakota seas of blue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/center>This time of year you may venture out of city limits a little bit and see a mirage of sorts. Crest a hill or turn a corner and it looks like there’s a lake ahead…but as you approach, the lake becomes a sea of little blue flowers! That would be a field of flax, or so I’m told. I’m not a farmer.<\/p>\n

I found this field, complete with a fallen farmhouse, close to Douglas Bay over the weekend. That’s just west of the National Guard’s training facility. I’m afraid I wasn’t able to catch the effect that makes this field look like a body of water, but I haven’t given up. There are similar fields just north of Bismarck, and I would like to try again while they’re still in bloom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This time of year you may venture out of city limits a little bit and see a mirage of sorts. Crest a hill or turn a corner and it looks like there’s a lake ahead…but as you approach, the lake … Continue reading →<\/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":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scenic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","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=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}