{"id":2004,"date":"2009-05-29T00:08:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T05:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2013-06-14T14:41:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T19:41:48","slug":"front-row-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2004","title":{"rendered":"Front row seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/front_row_seat_41180.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>If you find yourself on Promontory Drive, you may notice this lone little tree standing in a vacant lot. It&#8217;s been visible in a number of my sunset photos in the past year or two, and it&#8217;s grown quite a bit since I first saw it. Now there&#8217;s a chair under it. It&#8217;s a ratty chair, but it is well placed nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/front_row_seat_41178.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>When the spring sunset arrives, this chair is a prime place for viewing. Somebody had their thinker cranked up to MAX when they put the chair here. They apparently consume a lot of energy drinks too, judging by the cans I saw next to the chair.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time someone&#8217;s deposited a piece of furniture in this area. Before the roads came this far out, there was a dusty old double-track trail leading to the edge of the hill overlooking River Road. At the end of that road was just enough clear space to turn around, and occasionally a sofa or chair of some sort. Things are a little more accessible now that there are paved roads, but this is just a continuation of times past. Obviously I&#8217;m not the only one gazing at the sky around here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you find yourself on Promontory Drive, you may notice this lone little tree standing in a vacant lot. It&#8217;s been visible in a number of my sunset photos in the past year or two, and it&#8217;s grown quite a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2004\">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":[14,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funnyunusual","category-sunset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004","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=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2005,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions\/2005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}