{"id":2571,"date":"2010-07-01T09:25:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T14:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2025-01-02T23:43:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T04:43:37","slug":"dakota-roads-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2571","title":{"rendered":"Dakota Roads revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<center><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/dakota_roads_5124b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"231\" border=\"0\"><\/figure><\/center>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the same stretch of road as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">my original Dakota Roads post from 2006<\/a>, but if my memory serves me right I believe they may both be Highway 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A beautiful black road like this is not a common site in North Dakota, since various transportation and road departments have a chip-seal fetish that I can&#8217;t explain. Actually, as a motorcyclist, I resent it. It seems a shame to cover a beautifully smooth, sticky stretch of blacktop with a damaging abrasive, one especially hazardous when it&#8217;s first applied and left to sit for a week or two. As a result, a nice black road like this one is particularly noticeable and wonderful to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t the same stretch of road as my original Dakota Roads post from 2006, but if my memory serves me right I believe they may both be Highway 1. A beautiful black road like this is not a common &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2571\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571","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=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8265,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions\/8265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}