{"id":4014,"date":"2014-06-15T01:18:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T06:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/?p=4014"},"modified":"2014-06-15T01:23:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T06:23:42","slug":"i-forgot-to-mention-the-sideshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4014","title":{"rendered":"I forgot to mention the sideshow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2014\/05\/riverboat_crane_29063.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3945\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2014\/05\/riverboat_crane_29063.jpg\" alt=\"riverboat_crane_29063\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/05\/riverboat_crane_29063.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/05\/riverboat_crane_29063-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/05\/riverboat_crane_29063-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a>A while back I posted about the riverboat being hoisted into the Missouri River to begin its season, but I didn&#8217;t tell the whole story.\u00a0 You see, while all this coordinated action was meticulously taking place, there was another show going on in the river behind us.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the video&#8230;the noise you hear is the crane crew and the image stabilizer on my telephoto lens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/J5d7PBnv1wQ?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/J5d7PBnv1wQ?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center>I don&#8217;t know what species of bird these are, but they&#8217;re hilarious to watch.\u00a0 It was cute to see them dart underwater in large groups.\u00a0 They&#8217;d all go under for a little while, then gradually resurface a few at a time about ten meters or so from where they disappeared. There were at least two enormous clusters of them slowly making their way upstream, undeterred by all that was going on around them.<\/p>\n<p>If you know what kind of bird, please leave a comment.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I posted about the riverboat being hoisted into the Missouri River to begin its season, but I didn&#8217;t tell the whole story.\u00a0 You see, while all this coordinated action was meticulously taking place, there was another show &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4014\">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":[31,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014","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=4014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4018,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions\/4018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}