{"id":4324,"date":"2014-11-28T14:19:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T19:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4324"},"modified":"2014-11-28T14:19:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T19:19:05","slug":"out-roamin-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4324","title":{"rendered":"Out roamin&#8217; at last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/11\/river_ice_32240.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4323\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/11\/river_ice_32240.jpg\" alt=\"river_ice_32240\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/11\/river_ice_32240.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/11\/river_ice_32240-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/11\/river_ice_32240-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s been a long time since I could just load up the truck with gear and go pokin&#8217; around the area in hopes of some nice photos.\u00a0 Today was that day.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t need anything that would require any Black Friday insanity, and I didn&#8217;t feel like going in to work today, so I opted to take a little &#8220;me time&#8221; and peruse some fertile spots along the river.<\/p>\n<p>I was hoping that the warm front hanging out to our west would roll in and maybe cause some frost on the trees and fences, but that front didn&#8217;t arrive overnight.\u00a0 My second option was to hope for a colorful winter sunrise, but clouds on the east horizon obscured any chance of that.<\/p>\n<p>I did manage to find a few things to satisfy my curiosity, occupy my viewfinder, and pacify my urge to roam.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the first: a ridge of ice being pushed up\u00a0 along the boat dock at Schmidt Bottoms.\u00a0 The river hooks a left here, and all the ice that was floating down river was getting deposited in the outside of the corner.<\/p>\n<p>I did a lot of hiking today, and I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll have time to share the photographic payoff from that exercise&#8230;another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since I could just load up the truck with gear and go pokin&#8217; around the area in hopes of some nice photos.\u00a0 Today was that day.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t need anything that would require any Black &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4324\">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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324","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=4324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4325,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions\/4325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}