{"id":2755,"date":"2011-03-02T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T11:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2013-07-01T14:44:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T19:44:31","slug":"on-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2755","title":{"rendered":"On the hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/umary_10088.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>This was the sky that greeted us as my little boys and I reached the top of the hill at the University of Mary. I was done with work for the day and took them in the truck to see a sunset. That&#8217;s something we haven&#8217;t been able to do a lot lately, for a variety of reasons.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/clouds_10086.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>While the sky to the north and east was clear, this line of clouds awaited us to the west. It gave us a great display but cut the sunset short as the clouds grew thicker above the horizon. It was still a glorious sight.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the sunset is getting later in the day, I&#8217;m able to enjoy this with my little boys. Over winter it occurs before I&#8217;m done with work for the day, and in midsummer it occurs way after the little guys need to go to bed. That means we&#8217;re now approaching the &#8220;sweet spot&#8221; of our sunset viewing availability window. I&#8217;m so blessed that my little guys like to chase sunsets with Daddy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the sky that greeted us as my little boys and I reached the top of the hill at the University of Mary. I was done with work for the day and took them in the truck to see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2755\">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":[12,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-friends","category-sunset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","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=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2756,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions\/2756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}