{"id":2671,"date":"2010-11-20T22:48:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T03:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2671"},"modified":"2013-07-01T10:24:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T15:24:41","slug":"wheres-waldo-hiding-out-behind-home-depot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2671","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s Waldo? Hiding out behind Home Depot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/waldo_8302.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Tooling westward along Calgary Avenue, my attentive eye (yes, I do pay attention to the road while out with the camera) caught a dark spot on the back of the former Home Depot building. A quick cruise around the back of the parking lot confirmed that something was afoot:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/waldo_8303.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Someone stenciled Waldo on a boarded-up back door. Weird. I&#8217;m not sure when someone would get the time to stencil this next to a road that&#8217;s become so busy lately, probably in the wee hours of the night or morning. I haven&#8217;t found any significance to this particular graphic online, although I have a pretty good idea of what it may mean locally. I have sources everywhere&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This building has been purchased by a group of investors for development, and the latest rumor in the local media is that it could become home to some state government offices. Personally I (and others I have talked to) would like to see it become a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fleetfarm.com\" target=\"_blank\">Fleet Farm<\/a>. That would be a welcome addition to Bismarck-Mandan, and the building is already the right color!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tooling westward along Calgary Avenue, my attentive eye (yes, I do pay attention to the road while out with the camera) caught a dark spot on the back of the former Home Depot building. A quick cruise around the back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2671\">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-2671","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\/2671","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=2671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2672,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions\/2672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}