{"id":1494,"date":"2008-03-20T22:19:39","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T03:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2012-07-02T22:20:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T03:20:17","slug":"heavy-lifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1494","title":{"rendered":"Heavy lifting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/center>This poor fella stands along south 12th Street, sort of an agricultural Atlas who refuses to shrug. I bet he’s cause some serious rubbernecking, though!<\/p>\n

Hat tip to Brucellosis for featuring this on his blog. You beat me to the punch! I took some photos of this a while back but hadn’t posted them yet, and I’m glad I waited to catch him in the snow. It helps with the fact that the background’s pretty unappealing.<\/p>\n

This is part of a political campaign display, and is accompanied by a sign for a hopeful candidate. His message: help keep District 30 strong! I’m not showing the sign, though…no free advertising. Especially considering that our three representatives down here are Republicans, so this challenger is presumably a socialist, I mean Democrat. Same difference.<\/p>\n

I have since found out that Arnie Zent was vying for a Republican nomination for a vacated seat. My presumption was wrong, as is often the case. That drives home the old lesson: When you presume, you make a pre out of you and me!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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