{"id":3714,"date":"2013-09-26T07:35:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T12:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2013-09-26T07:35:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T12:35:17","slug":"capitol-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3714","title":{"rendered":"Capitol observations"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had the opportunity to go to the state capitol building today, and after accomplishing my errands I took a quick zip to the top observation floor and also down to the Memorial Hall.\u00a0 Here are a couple of things I noted:<\/p>\n

\"capitol_elevator_31000.jpg\"<\/a>Among the depictions in the brass on the elevator doors is a depiction of a more hostile time.\u00a0 It’s interesting to look at the brass in the elevator areas as well as the revolving doors in the Memorial Hall and note some of the figures depicted thereon.<\/p>\n

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\"capitol_mall_iphone_1174\"<\/a>Uh-oh.\u00a0 Notice that patch of yellow?\u00a0 The leaves are changing, and they’re going to do so quickly.\u00a0 Get those cameras ready!<\/p>\n

\"memorial_hall_pano_iphone_1180\"<\/a>I used the iPhone’s panoramic feature to do a quick pan of the Memorial Hall.\u00a0 Click on this image for a larger version.\u00a0 This is a great feature that came out with the iPhone 5 and iOS 6.\u00a0 I’m not about to upgrade to iOS 7 unless I absolutely have to.<\/p>\n

I used to run around the capitol with my little guys a lot, but it’s been quite some time since we’ve been able to do so.\u00a0 I enjoy it as much as they do, and I suspect that there are many who share the same fondness and memories about this historic building.\u00a0 When’s the last time you paid it a visit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had the opportunity to go to the state capitol building today, and after accomplishing my errands I took a quick zip to the top observation floor and also down to the Memorial Hall.\u00a0 Here are a couple of things … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714","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=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3715,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions\/3715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}