{"id":2686,"date":"2010-12-16T23:58:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T04:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2686"},"modified":"2013-07-01T10:37:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T15:37:17","slug":"a-few-local-attractions-i-miss-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2686","title":{"rendered":"A few local attractions I miss this Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/christmas_trees_27972.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>If you&#8217;ve traveled up or down Northview Lane this Christmas season, you&#8217;ve likely noticed that the giant pine tree isn&#8217;t decorated from top to bottom and that the lit menagerie is conspicuously absent from the yard in which it stands. I&#8217;m told Dr. Hamar sold this house, which has some worried because he was known as the organizer of Northview&#8217;s decorations. Let&#8217;s chip in and rent a lift or bucket truck for the new owners, eh?<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/christmas_trees_27993.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>This tree along north 4th Street was one of my favorites but I haven&#8217;t seen it lit or decorated this year.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/christmas_blockhouse_28199.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>When I was at Fort Lincoln tonight I didn&#8217;t see any decorated blockhouses. This display was lit by a generator running inside the blockhouse. What a cold hike that was&#8230;but photographically worth it!<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/schaff_haus_17889.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"203\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Of course, who can forget the Schaff house, south of Mandan? Sadly, Paul Schaff announced a couple of years ago that he was done with his amazing display, one which could be seen from the Seven Seas and a good stretch of Interstate 94.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I ever photographed the Anderson building on west Main Avenue when it was decorated, but I&#8217;ve come to expect the Christmas decorates to be lit around the top of the building. Tonight it was dark.<\/p>\n<p>While driving around with my best friend tonight we were pondering that the number of decorated homes has declined steadily each Christmas. On a limo ride earlier this week I noticed that we really didn&#8217;t have many Christmas lights to see, other than at Sertoma Park and the Northview area. Hopefully this trend reverses.<\/p>\n<p>As we prepare to celebrate Jesus&#8217; birth, don&#8217;t let the lack of lights get you down&#8230;I sure won&#8217;t. Sure, it&#8217;s fun to get into the spirit of the season by means of festive decorations, but they pale next to the true meaning of Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve traveled up or down Northview Lane this Christmas season, you&#8217;ve likely noticed that the giant pine tree isn&#8217;t decorated from top to bottom and that the lit menagerie is conspicuously absent from the yard in which it stands. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2686\">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":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-bismarck-mandan","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686","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=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2687,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions\/2687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}