{"id":3747,"date":"2013-10-09T23:06:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T04:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2013-10-09T23:06:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T04:06:54","slug":"in-case-you-have-a-hobbit-on-your-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3747","title":{"rendered":"In case you have a Hobbit on your farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2013\/10\/rusticway_0046.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3746\" alt=\"rusticway_0046\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2013\/10\/rusticway_0046.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/rusticway_0046.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/rusticway_0046-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/rusticway_0046-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a>You may have seen this little hut along I-94, where it would seem to have been deposited after having been plucked from Middle Earth.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t want to show the signs on either side of the roof in this photo, but I&#8217;ll tell you the web address they contained: <a title=\"Rustic Way\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rusticway.com\" target=\"_blank\">rusticway.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the website of a guy who makes interesting creations made from reclaimed wood rescued from dilapidated farmsteads.\u00a0 As an aficionado of such sites I couldn&#8217;t help but be instantly enamored with the idea.\u00a0 From the site&#8217;s About page, talking about artisan Dan Pauly:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cAs I uncover an old barn or shed,\u201d Dan says, \u201cI realize that it could be the same lumber that my great-grandfather used more than 100 years ago. I think that respect for the craftsmen and craftswomen of the past, and for the wood they used, make a difference in each new piece I create. Until you have dismantled an old barn, you can\u2019t imagine the painstaking effort it took from Old-World craftsmen to erect it. They were each a work of art.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pretty cool, huh?\u00a0 <a title=\"Rustic Way\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rusticway.com\" target=\"_blank\">Click on the link<\/a> and go take a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen this little hut along I-94, where it would seem to have been deposited after having been plucked from Middle Earth.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t want to show the signs on either side of the roof in this photo, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3747\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[6,11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-fallen-farms","category-on-the-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747","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=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3748,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions\/3748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}