{"id":3276,"date":"2012-08-22T00:11:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T05:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=3276"},"modified":"2013-07-02T17:39:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T22:39:20","slug":"benched-at-fish-creek-with-big-spiders-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3276","title":{"rendered":"Benched at Fish Creek with Big Spider&#8217;s Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/fish_creek_21935.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>My friend Jerry told me about this cool lookout point high above Fish Creek Dam, located about fifteen miles or so west of Mandan. I had a stressful day today so, after a quick power-nap, I bolted out to catch the sunset. I arrived just in time to hike up to the summit with my cameras. I found the one spot on the appropriately placed bench that wasn&#8217;t covered in bird poop and set about trying to catch the sunset in the few short minutes before it disappeared.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/fish_creek_21939.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Here&#8217;s what I saw. It was a perfect evening with no wind, nice warm summer air, and of course the tranquility of the brilliant sunset. Here&#8217;s what I heard: the song <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/memory-man\/id435147109\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Secret Chiefs&#8221; by Big Spider&#8217;s Back<\/a> (click to listen on iTunes.com), one of my favorite sunset tunes. It fit the mood perfectly tonight, which is why I have deemed it tonight&#8217;s Sunset Song of the Week\u2122.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Jerry told me about this cool lookout point high above Fish Creek Dam, located about fifteen miles or so west of Mandan. I had a stressful day today so, after a quick power-nap, I bolted out to catch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3276\">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":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276","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=3276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3279,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions\/3279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}