{"id":3191,"date":"2012-05-23T02:14:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T07:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2013-07-02T17:00:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T22:00:31","slug":"parted-down-the-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3191","title":{"rendered":"Parted down the middle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/trees_parted_17629.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>What do you do when those cute little saplings you planted in the 80s start encroaching on overhead power and\/or phone lines? Well, sadly, you&#8217;ve gotta cut &#8217;em. As you can see, that can get a little awkward.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/trees_parted_17636.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>I got a chuckle when I noticed this line of trees on South 12th Street a while back. I&#8217;ve seen the same sort of phenomenon along Divide Avenue as well, and I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s not an isolated situation.<\/p>\n<p>If trees are becoming a hazard near power lines on or near your property, you can fill out an online request on MDU&#8217;s website and request that they come and trim the trees back to a safe distance. As the pictures above indicate, sometimes the result of all that safety is a sight that would make Edward Scissorhands proud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do when those cute little saplings you planted in the 80s start encroaching on overhead power and\/or phone lines? Well, sadly, you&#8217;ve gotta cut &#8217;em. As you can see, that can get a little awkward. I got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3191\">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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funnyunusual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191","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=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3192,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions\/3192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}