{"id":2076,"date":"2009-07-30T22:24:25","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T03:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2013-06-14T16:06:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T21:06:52","slug":"you-can-never-get-it-back-you-can-only-let-it-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2076","title":{"rendered":"You can never get it back&#8230;you can only let it go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/walkin_with_j.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>I titled this post after the most profound Grasshopper Takeover lyrics I&#8217;ve ever heard. And with a name like Grasshopper Takeover, you know they&#8217;ve got to have something interesting to say.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I took our boys walking downtown today. They&#8217;re so precious, and we live in a city where we can take them walking in any area we want and not have to worry about crime or most other dangers. We&#8217;re truly blessed to be raising our little family in the Bismarck-Mandan area.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re also blessed to have each other and the two most handsome little <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blond\" target=\"_blank\">tow-headed<\/a> boys ever. Walking along on a perfect July night with my 1 yr old Sparky holding my finger, life couldn&#8217;t get any better than this. Well, except if we&#8217;d set the camera on my wife&#8217;s new phone to something other than &#8220;grainy postage stamp&#8221; resolution first.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I&#8217;ll never have to get it back. I&#8217;m never gonna let it go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I titled this post after the most profound Grasshopper Takeover lyrics I&#8217;ve ever heard. And with a name like Grasshopper Takeover, you know they&#8217;ve got to have something interesting to say. My wife and I took our boys walking downtown &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2076\">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":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expository","category-family-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","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=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}