{"id":217,"date":"2006-03-30T06:28:10","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T06:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=217"},"modified":"2011-11-26T06:29:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T06:29:07","slug":"stymied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Stymied!*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was on my way to the deep, DEEP part of the river bottoms for some wildlife photography Wednesday afternoon when I came upon this little obstruction:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/stymied.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite a nearly <strong>overwhelming<\/strong> temptation to throw it into four wheel drive and give &#8216;er the proverbial &#8220;onion,&#8221; I backed off and called it a day. There&#8217;s always the weekend&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>* &#8220;Stymie&#8221; is an old Scottish colloquialism from the early days of the game of golf, meaning to obstruct a shot. For the definition of &#8220;colloquialism&#8221; please consult a dictionary or someone who&#8217;s homeschooled.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on my way to the deep, DEEP part of the river bottoms for some wildlife photography Wednesday afternoon when I came upon this little obstruction: Despite a nearly overwhelming temptation to throw it into four wheel drive and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=217\">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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","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=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}