{"id":403,"date":"2006-07-14T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=403"},"modified":"2011-11-26T18:56:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T18:56:23","slug":"well-see-your-painted-ponies-and-raise-you-some-painted-bison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ll see your painted ponies, and raise you some painted bison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/painted_bison.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"378\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Yep, Fargo&#8217;s doing it too&#8230;but they&#8217;ve got painted Bison instead of painted ponies. I saw this one at the Downtown Street Fair, which opened today (Thursday). There was a cooler one over by the F-M Community Theater, but I didn&#8217;t have the time to snap a photo of that one.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously the only retaliatory response is to begin planning on the Catch a Painted Moose campaign; while not necessarily bigger than a bison, it would certainly be on par &#8212; and cooler.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine these were chosen over ponies because of NDSU&#8217;s mascot, the Bison. One has to chuckle at the though of Grand Forks following suit. Can you imagine the outrage over a &#8220;Catch a Painted Sioux&#8221; campaign? Ouch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, Fargo&#8217;s doing it too&#8230;but they&#8217;ve got painted Bison instead of painted ponies. I saw this one at the Downtown Street Fair, which opened today (Thursday). There was a cooler one over by the F-M Community Theater, but I didn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=403\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","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=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}