{"id":1703,"date":"2008-09-08T17:36:53","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T22:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2013-06-08T18:30:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T23:30:37","slug":"from-our-just-when-you-thought-youd-seen-it-all-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1703","title":{"rendered":"From our &#8220;just when you thought you&#8217;d seen it all&#8221; department&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/balls_36339.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>One of the last things I thought I&#8217;d find in the middle of a field in central North Dakota is a big pyramid of bowling balls. Some look like they&#8217;ve been painted black with what looks like stove paint (regular flat black turns gray) but maybe they&#8217;re just aged. Some are left with their original color(s). This stack of bowling balls was next to a brush pile in a field well east of Bismarck.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to hear the story behind this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the last things I thought I&#8217;d find in the middle of a field in central North Dakota is a big pyramid of bowling balls. Some look like they&#8217;ve been painted black with what looks like stove paint (regular &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1703\">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":[14,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funnyunusual","category-on-the-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","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=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}