{"id":3474,"date":"2013-06-28T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=3474"},"modified":"2013-07-02T19:15:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T00:15:20","slug":"if-i-had-a-boat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3474","title":{"rendered":"If I had a boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/boat_0583.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>I&#8217;d take it to the river with my boy! As luck would have it, he had his own boat, which he bought with his own money at a rummage sale today. We were on a mission: get some fresh river water for the tadpoles they brought home last week, see if the new-used boat floats, and (of course) throw rocks into the water and see who can make the biggest splash.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been so busy for the past several months that I have barely had time to breathe, but this little excursion tonight marks the beginning of something I haven&#8217;t taken in a long, LONG time: a vacation. My little guys have already given me an itinerary for the week that is pretty ambitious, but I hope that some of the time will involve cameras. Naturally the fruits of any such photography will show up here.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the title of this post is an homage to the song by Lyle Lovett, but best performed by Tucker&#8217;d Out. They&#8217;re my favorite bluegrass\/folk band from Fargo, originating from the guys I worked with at KVLY\/KXJB TV. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/tuckerdout\" target=\"_blank\">Check &#8217;em out here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d take it to the river with my boy! As luck would have it, he had his own boat, which he bought with his own money at a rummage sale today. We were on a mission: get some fresh river &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3474\">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":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-bismarck-mandan","category-family-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474","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=3474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3475,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions\/3475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}