{"id":3920,"date":"2014-03-28T07:35:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T12:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2014-03-28T07:36:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T12:36:59","slug":"at-this-point-i-guess-theyre-probably-just-doing-it-for-my-amusement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3920","title":{"rendered":"At this point, I guess they&#8217;re probably just doing it for my amusement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/restrictions_sign_29560.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>The City of Bismarck has put out a notice that <a href=\"http:\/\/bismarck.org\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2929\" target=\"_blank\">load restrictions on the city&#8217;s roads started on March 15th.\u00a0 <\/a>It gives me the perfect opportunity for a little good-natured ribbing over the &#8220;Restrictions in Effect&#8221; signs traditionally seen around Bismarck this time of year. Restrictions of what nature, you ask? If your only source of information was these signs, I suppose it&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/restrictions_sign_29551.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>I first saw these signs go up a few years ago (and every Spring since) and thought they were pretty funny. It&#8217;s because of the load restrictions I mentioned, but the signs omitted that detail. It&#8217;s only after someone figured out what was missing (maybe they read this blog) and wedged a little &#8220;Load&#8221; in there that the signs made sense:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/restrictions_sign.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>This is how the corrected signs look. I am still occasionally surprised to find an unmodified one posted. As I drove down Centennial yesterday, I noticed that someone&#8217;s going to have to dig through a drawer for another &#8220;Load&#8221; sticker!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Bismarck has put out a notice that load restrictions on the city&#8217;s roads started on March 15th.\u00a0 It gives me the perfect opportunity for a little good-natured ribbing over the &#8220;Restrictions in Effect&#8221; signs traditionally seen around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3920\">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":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-signs-logos-typos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920","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=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3922,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions\/3922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}