{"id":407,"date":"2006-07-15T17:43:02","date_gmt":"2006-07-15T17:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=407"},"modified":"2011-11-26T17:44:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T17:44:13","slug":"look-up-in-the-sky-its-a-bird-its-a-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird…it’s a plane…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/center>It’s a big honkin’ alligator! Or is it a crocodile? I can’t tell from here. This was one of the giant flying creatures and shapes flying just north of Horizon Middle School.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/center>If you were anywhere in North Bismarck, you could have seen these dotting the horizon (no pun intended) north of town. What wasn’t so easy to see from a distance was the actual scale of these floating objects. They’re HUGE!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/center>As you can see, these are pretty enormous. They’re part of the Prairie Rose State Games. There were a bunch of different animals and shapes flying out there, all of these much too large for some guy to just stand there with a reel of string and hold them in place. They were on heavy duty lines, anchored to the ground.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/center>There were guys running around like crazy, getting the different kites up in the air. They had many of them on display, a couple of them easily over a hundred feet long with their tails. Some of them flew pretty automatically, others spent plenty of time up and down.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/center>Here’s another picture for a sense of perspective. The tiny people in the lower right of the photo include a KXMB photographer. I don’t think KFYR was on top of this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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