{"id":3366,"date":"2012-11-26T07:25:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T12:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2013-07-02T18:29:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T23:29:25","slug":"these-are-a-few-of-my-favorite-things-with-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3366","title":{"rendered":"These are a few of my favorite things (with map)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/northview_lane2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"306\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>You probably knew this already, but two of Bismarck-Mandan&#8217;s favorite Christmas attractions are up and running as of Thanksgiving weekend: Northview Lane and Chmielewski&#8217;s Christmas Corner.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/kennedy_ave_xmas_9092.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"265\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>The display at the corner of Kennedy Avenue, as elaborate as it is, still is a work in progress. The abominable snowmen aren&#8217;t up yet, for instance. There is, however, an amazing miniature ski lift hauling your favorite holiday characters up to the roof and back! Yes, photos are forthcoming as time allows.<\/p>\n<p>My little guys and I absolutely love driving around looking at these displays with the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack playing in the truck. This time of year passes very quickly, so make sure you take a few laps!<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/christmas_map_2011.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>I&#8217;ve resurrected last year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinyurl.com\/bismarck-mandanchristmaslights\" target=\"_blank\">Google Map of Bismarck-Mandan Christmas Lights<\/a> for this year, and hope to make some additions or corrections once my little guys and I go out exploring. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The aforementioned Chmielewski&#8217;s Christmas Corner on Kennedy &amp; 23rd Street;<br \/>\n&#8211; Northview Lane;<br \/>\n&#8211; Acres of musical lights with a Wilz&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightorama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Light-O-Rama show<\/a> on Chestnut Lane;<br \/>\n&#8211; Dykshoorn Park in Mandan;<br \/>\n&#8211; Christmas in the Park in Bismarck;<br \/>\n&#8211; and a wooden cartoon menagerie on west Avenue C.<\/p>\n<p>Notably absent are displays on 4th and Divide, Ridgeview lane, West View Place. They weren&#8217;t on display last year, but I see that Ridgeview is back. Hopefully some of the others return as well.<\/p>\n<p><center>The link is easy to remember:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinyurl.com\/bismarck-mandanchristmaslights\" target=\"_blank\">www.tinyurl.com\/bismarck-mandanchristmaslights<\/a>.<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably knew this already, but two of Bismarck-Mandan&#8217;s favorite Christmas attractions are up and running as of Thanksgiving weekend: Northview Lane and Chmielewski&#8217;s Christmas Corner. The display at the corner of Kennedy Avenue, as elaborate as it is, still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3366\">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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366","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=3366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}