{"id":4203,"date":"2014-10-09T22:33:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T03:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/?p=4203"},"modified":"2014-10-09T22:33:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T03:33:26","slug":"the-path-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4203","title":{"rendered":"The path ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2014\/10\/lc_trail_31892.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4202\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2014\/10\/lc_trail_31892.jpg\" alt=\"lc_trail_31892\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/10\/lc_trail_31892.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/10\/lc_trail_31892-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/10\/lc_trail_31892-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a>I got this shot while being swarmed and attacked by squadrons of aggressive mosquitoes, the likes of which I&#8217;d never seen.\u00a0 My family and I decided to take a celebratory walk on the Lewis and Clark path, and man did we find skeeters!<\/p>\n<p>The path was nice, although we were a few days too late to find the leaves in the photogenic state we&#8217;d prefer.\u00a0 The aforementioned mosquitoes cancelled our plans to find all the geocaches along our route.\u00a0 I was extremely glad that we didn&#8217;t bring bikes, as much of the western part of the path is overrun with tons of river sand washed up from the 2011 Missouri River flood.<\/p>\n<p>As to the title of this post, I&#8217;m pleased to report that my recent &#8220;do over&#8221; surgery at Mayo Clinic was a success.\u00a0 So too was my wife&#8217;s surgery a week later.\u00a0 After giving up our house in March after receiving the bad news of my condition, we&#8217;re now in the process of building a brand new one.\u00a0 Even my kids&#8217; health has markedly improved.\u00a0 I have a brand new camera lens on the way, one which I&#8217;ve wanted for a year or more.\u00a0 The path ahead looks sunny indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this shot while being swarmed and attacked by squadrons of aggressive mosquitoes, the likes of which I&#8217;d never seen.\u00a0 My family and I decided to take a celebratory walk on the Lewis and Clark path, and man did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4203\">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-4203","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\/4203","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=4203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4204,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203\/revisions\/4204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}