{"id":4530,"date":"2015-04-06T07:13:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T12:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4530"},"modified":"2015-04-06T07:13:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T12:13:39","slug":"so-whats-the-brown-goop-bismarck-is-spraying-on-city-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4530","title":{"rendered":"So&#8230;what&#8217;s the brown goop Bismarck is spraying on city streets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/04\/yuck_truck_33619.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4532\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/04\/yuck_truck_33619-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"yuck_truck_33619\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/04\/yuck_truck_33619.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/04\/yuck_truck_33619-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/04\/yuck_truck_33619-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m nothing if not curious. A friend once pointed that out as my defining quality. Naturally, I was intrigued when I came upon these trucks spraying what looks like motor oil (but clearly isn&#8217;t) all over the roads. I&#8217;ve seen it multiple times, and I have emailed Public Works to find out what it is. I&#8217;ll post their reply here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/04\/yuck_truck_33623.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4531\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/04\/yuck_truck_33623-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"yuck_truck_33623\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/04\/yuck_truck_33623.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/04\/yuck_truck_33623-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/04\/yuck_truck_33623-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>This is some ugly stuff, but certainly it must have a legitimate purpose. We don&#8217;t have some sinister Bond villain running the Public Works department. Friends and I have surmised that it may be to neutralize the salt applied to the roads over winter (don&#8217;t get me started on <em>that<\/em>).\u00a0 They aren&#8217;t being followed by street sweepers, so it&#8217;s not like they&#8217;re doing a presoak or anything.<\/p>\n<p>That reminds me.\u00a0 Since I followed this truck in on Highway 10 and all the way up 26th, I&#8217;ve got some brown gunk to wash off my truck. Time to get some quarters&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m nothing if not curious. A friend once pointed that out as my defining quality. Naturally, I was intrigued when I came upon these trucks spraying what looks like motor oil (but clearly isn&#8217;t) all over the roads. I&#8217;ve seen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4530\">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-4530","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\/4530","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=4530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4534,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions\/4534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}