{"id":1953,"date":"2009-04-21T05:52:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T10:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2013-06-14T14:09:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T19:09:42","slug":"a-tale-of-two-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1953","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/clouds_041709.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Now that the bleak skies of winter are gone, it&#8217;s time to enjoy the variety and beauty of North Dakota&#8217;s skies. I looked up this weekend while driving my little boys around with the roof open. I keep a spare point-n-shoot camera handy in the vehicle most of the time, so I simply pointed it straight up while stopped in a parking lot downtown.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/clouds_40493.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Later in the evening, when the little fellas were tucked away in their cribs, I was on my way home from an after-hours recording session and saw similar clouds with a much redder backdrop. I stopped along the top of Hillside Park to get a shot of the color just before the sun dropped over the horizon for good, taking all that red with it.<\/p>\n<p>What a difference a few hours makes, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the bleak skies of winter are gone, it&#8217;s time to enjoy the variety and beauty of North Dakota&#8217;s skies. I looked up this weekend while driving my little boys around with the roof open. I keep a spare &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1953\">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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skies-and-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","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=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}