{"id":4595,"date":"2015-05-14T07:37:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T12:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4595"},"modified":"2015-05-14T07:37:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T12:37:03","slug":"easing-into-it-like-a-hot-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4595","title":{"rendered":"Easing into it like a hot bath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/05\/crown_butte_33942.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/05\/crown_butte_33942-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"crown_butte_33942\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/05\/crown_butte_33942.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/05\/crown_butte_33942-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/05\/crown_butte_33942-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Maybe it&#8217;s a guy thing &#8211; we go with what we know.\u00a0 That would explain why so many dudes to back to their ex-girlfriends, or something.\u00a0 Anyway, as I continue to resume my photographic journey, I find myself shaking the cobwebs by visiting some of my favorite sites&#8230;and this is one.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a small no-maintenance road east of Crown Butte, from which I am able to get some pretty nice sunsets (if the sky will comply).<\/p>\n<p>On this particular night, I was surprised to see that there was <strong>no<\/strong> water in the lowlands below the Butte.\u00a0 Only a few remnants of last year&#8217;s cattails remained.\u00a0 Given this week&#8217;s rains, maybe that has changed&#8230;but it was dry as a bone when I took this shot.<\/p>\n<p>This was one of those nights where I hiked into position, photography buddy nearby, receiving my first tick (and bite!) of the year&#8230;and then something on the horizon flipped the OFF switch on our sunset.\u00a0 Thankfully I was able to catch these colorful clouds before things fizzled!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&#8217;s a guy thing &#8211; we go with what we know.\u00a0 That would explain why so many dudes to back to their ex-girlfriends, or something.\u00a0 Anyway, as I continue to resume my photographic journey, I find myself shaking the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4595\">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":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595","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=4595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4597,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions\/4597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}