{"id":2156,"date":"2009-10-07T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2013-06-14T17:01:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T22:01:43","slug":"ribbon-of-pinkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2156","title":{"rendered":"Ribbon of pinkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/breast_cancer_flags_49147.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"288\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Often I use some sort of lyrical or song title reference in my posts, but a quick album\/title search of my music library only brought up &#8220;Ribbon of Darkness&#8221; by Marty Robbins. Great song, but not applicable to this &#8220;ribbon&#8221; of pink and white flags at the state capitol grounds.<br \/>\nOctober is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, in case you&#8217;re wondering what it&#8217;s all about.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/pink_tractor.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"272\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>That reminded me of this pink tractor that made an appearance a while back as part of a promotion to raise awareness. It was parked near the Clear Channel offices for a while and showed up at a lot of different events. I don&#8217;t know if it was given away; can you imagine being the lucky guy to win a pink tractor? Driving around on it would be the kind of thing that could get you beat up, I imagine, unless you can blurt out the &#8220;how I got a pink tractor&#8221; story first.<\/p>\n<p>If you drove past the capitol and were wondering what was with the little group of flags was all about, I hope this clears it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often I use some sort of lyrical or song title reference in my posts, but a quick album\/title search of my music library only brought up &#8220;Ribbon of Darkness&#8221; by Marty Robbins. Great song, but not applicable to this &#8220;ribbon&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2156\">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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-bismarck-mandan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","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=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions\/2157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}