{"id":207,"date":"2006-03-23T06:21:33","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T06:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=207"},"modified":"2011-11-26T06:22:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T06:22:19","slug":"this-guy-sure-can-drive-and-scoop-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"This guy sure can drive&#8230;and scoop rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/rock_scoop1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"255\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>These photos were taken by my friend Jerry on Tuesday. They&#8217;re wild enough that I just had to post them here. His email said:<\/p>\n<p><em>Driving to Minot yesterday and at Coleharbor the Soo line train was loaded with big rocks. Driving around on the top of the boxcars and rocks was a backhoe that was scooping them out. He was actually able to drive from car to car scooping rocks. I did not see a ramp or anything to get up on top.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/rock_scoop2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"255\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>A guy&#8217;s gotta be talented and nuts to pull off something like that. Hats off to whoever&#8217;s perched atop that train car, scooping rocks into a truck. They certainly are taking it to the next level!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These photos were taken by my friend Jerry on Tuesday. They&#8217;re wild enough that I just had to post them here. His email said: Driving to Minot yesterday and at Coleharbor the Soo line train was loaded with big rocks. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=207\">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":[6,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","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=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}