{"id":2651,"date":"2010-11-03T12:53:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T17:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2013-07-01T10:15:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T15:15:38","slug":"let-the-day-begin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2651","title":{"rendered":"Let the Day Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/sunrise_windmill.jpg\" width=\"406\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Here&#8217;s to the babies in a brand new world,<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s to the beauty of the stars&#8230;<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s to the travelers of the open road,<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s to the dreamers and the bards&#8230;<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s to the soldiers on the desert dunes,<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s to the farmers in the fields&#8230;<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s to the preachers of the sacred Word,<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s to the loving God who heals&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to you, my little loves, with blessing from above, now let the Day begin.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Just sharing a friendly good morning with you and the windmill perched near Farmer&#8217;s Livestock southeast of Bismarck and some lyrics modified from one of my favorite songs by The Call.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/republican_victory_8307.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"233\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>If I had to pick the question I have been asked most frequently at the Republican Victory Party or even online yesterday, it would have to be a variant of &#8220;what will you blog about now?&#8221; My stock answer has been &#8220;sunsets and windmills!&#8221; Of course, the lead photo of this post is a sunrise, but I&#8217;m sure you get the picture (pun intended).<\/p>\n<p>I started this blog as a photo diary of a guy who loves Bismarck-Mandan and North Dakota in general. It shall remain exactly that. Desperate times call for desperate measures, they say, and we certainly are in those. I won&#8217;t rule out a political post from time to time, especially with a lame duck session of Congress to deal with yet. A Republican sweep in North Dakota makes things much more optimistic here at home, but let&#8217;s not forget that we&#8217;re in very pivotal times for our country. I may periodically comment on things as a result. Regardless, I intend for things to return to &#8220;business as usual&#8221; here at the ol&#8217; Blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s to the babies in a brand new world, Here&#8217;s to the beauty of the stars&#8230; Here&#8217;s to the travelers of the open road, Here&#8217;s to the dreamers and the bards&#8230; Here&#8217;s to the soldiers on the desert dunes, Here&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2651\">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":[9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expository","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651","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=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}