{"id":3816,"date":"2013-11-20T08:07:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T13:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2013-11-20T08:07:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T13:07:59","slug":"the-lights-are-on-but-nobodys-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3816","title":{"rendered":"The lights are on, but nobody&#8217;s home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2013\/11\/chambers_pan_iphone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3817\" alt=\"chambers_pan_iphone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2013\/11\/chambers_pan_iphone-500x120.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/11\/chambers_pan_iphone-500x120.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/11\/chambers_pan_iphone-150x36.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/11\/chambers_pan_iphone-1024x246.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><em>Click on the image for a larger version<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was able to visit the capitol around the lunch hour yesterday and, while taking a cruise around the building I love so much, took the opportunity to poke my head into the two legislative chambers.\u00a0 They&#8217;re always open for the public to take a look, with ropes designating the limited area in which we&#8217;re allowed to enter.\u00a0 It was enough for me to do a couple of quick panoramics to assemble into this composite.<\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t be long before these chambers are full with a flurry of activity.\u00a0 We&#8217;re right in the middle of the biennium, with elections one short year away and a session to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on the image for a larger version I was able to visit the capitol around the lunch hour yesterday and, while taking a cruise around the building I love so much, took the opportunity to poke my head into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3816\">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":[4,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-bismarck-mandan","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816","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=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3819,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions\/3819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}