{"id":3801,"date":"2013-10-27T16:29:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T21:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/?p=3801"},"modified":"2013-10-27T16:29:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T21:29:26","slug":"gnarly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3801","title":{"rendered":"Gnarly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2013\/10\/spooky_tree_28560.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3800\" alt=\"spooky_tree_28560\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2013\/10\/spooky_tree_28560.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/spooky_tree_28560.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/spooky_tree_28560-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/spooky_tree_28560-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a>I had a very short window to try to get some photos in, something that hasn&#8217;t happened in a while.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve pretty much missed most of the foliage, I think&#8230;so, since the trees are looking all bleak and nasty, I figured I&#8217;d try to find a spooky tree photo.<\/p>\n<p>As a Christian I don&#8217;t do the Halloween thing.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not what I&#8217;m going for.\u00a0 I knew that the Apple Creek Wildlife Management Area south of town was a fertile ground for nasty looking trees, so I bolted down Sibley Drive to South 12th Street.\u00a0 Many of the best looking trees were in poor locations, but this thing sure looked gnarly with some interesting geometry.\u00a0 Thus it was my subject for a little while before I had to bolt back home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a very short window to try to get some photos in, something that hasn&#8217;t happened in a while.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve pretty much missed most of the foliage, I think&#8230;so, since the trees are looking all bleak and nasty, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3801\">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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801","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=3801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3803,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions\/3803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}