{"id":3312,"date":"2012-09-20T07:01:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T12:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=3312"},"modified":"2013-07-02T17:55:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T22:55:37","slug":"obama-the-lame-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3312","title":{"rendered":"Obama the lame duck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/obama_lame_duck_22370.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>You wouldn&#8217;t know it as a consumer of the mainstream media, but there was a TEA Party rally in Bismarck this week. In fact, it was only one of several held on Constitution Day; rallies were also held in Fargo, Grand Forks, Jamestown, Minot, Dickinson, and Williston on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>My little guys and I attended with our cameras. They started out taking pictures of flags and the capitol but soon discovered a bug. No, not a glitch &#8211; an actual insect, and a large one at that. That pretty much captured the attention of both little boys until one stomped on him.<\/p>\n<p>It was encouraging to see Governor Dalrymple in attendance, listening intently to the scheduled speakers and concerned citizens who participated in open mic sessions. I eyeballed the signs and banners displayed but knew instantly that this little girl&#8217;s was my favorite: the lame duck. It was my boys&#8217; favorite too, I believe&#8230;after they got to pet the duck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You wouldn&#8217;t know it as a consumer of the mainstream media, but there was a TEA Party rally in Bismarck this week. In fact, it was only one of several held on Constitution Day; rallies were also held in Fargo, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3312\">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":[8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312","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=3312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3313,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions\/3313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}