{"id":4196,"date":"2014-09-28T23:52:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T04:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/?p=4196"},"modified":"2014-09-28T23:52:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T04:52:34","slug":"dark-side-of-the-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4196","title":{"rendered":"Dark Side of the Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2014\/09\/capitol_darkside_60d_0655.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4197\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2014\/09\/capitol_darkside_60d_0655.jpg\" alt=\"capitol_darkside_60d_0655\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/09\/capitol_darkside_60d_0655.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/09\/capitol_darkside_60d_0655-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/09\/capitol_darkside_60d_0655-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a>One consequence of the capitol grounds construction is that the lights illuminating the north face of the tower are no longer in place.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure there will be new ones once the construction is completed, but for now it&#8217;s just dirt where the parking lot used to be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2014\/09\/capitol_dirtwork_ip_4088.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4198\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2014\/09\/capitol_dirtwork_ip_4088-500x237.jpg\" alt=\"capitol_dirtwork_ip_4088\" width=\"500\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/09\/capitol_dirtwork_ip_4088-500x237.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/09\/capitol_dirtwork_ip_4088-150x71.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/09\/capitol_dirtwork_ip_4088-900x427.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/09\/capitol_dirtwork_ip_4088.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>I took this photo a while back (click for larger size) and it shows how things are starting to take shape.\u00a0 The north side of the capitol will have more pedestrian area, much like the south side.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2014\/09\/capitol_project.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4199\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2014\/09\/capitol_project-500x373.jpg\" alt=\"capitol_project\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/09\/capitol_project-500x373.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/09\/capitol_project-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/09\/capitol_project-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/09\/capitol_project-401x300.jpg 401w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/09\/capitol_project-900x672.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/09\/capitol_project.jpg 1205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Don&#8217;t take my word for it &#8211; this information is posted and updated on the capitol&#8217;s Facility Management website.\u00a0 You can get a PDF copy of the plan by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nd.gov\/fac\/security\/nortparkinglots.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, there were other notable song title candidates for the title of this blog post, such as &#8220;On the Dark Side&#8221; by Eddie and the Cruisers, &#8220;Moonshadow&#8221; by Cat Stevens, &#8220;Standing in the Shadows&#8221; by Dokken, &#8220;Ribbon of Darkness&#8221; by Marty Robbins&#8230;need I go on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One consequence of the capitol grounds construction is that the lights illuminating the north face of the tower are no longer in place.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure there will be new ones once the construction is completed, but for now it&#8217;s just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4196\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-bismarck-mandan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196","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=4196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4200,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions\/4200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}