{"id":4602,"date":"2015-05-18T07:25:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T12:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4602"},"modified":"2015-05-18T07:25:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T12:25:51","slug":"welcome-tree-have-a-seat-at-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4602","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, tree.  Have a seat at the table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/05\/sitting_tree_34214.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4604\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/05\/sitting_tree_34214-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"sitting_tree_34214\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/05\/sitting_tree_34214.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/05\/sitting_tree_34214-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/05\/sitting_tree_34214-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>While poking around in the trees, I came upon a picnic table which hadn&#8217;t seen a lot of love lately.\u00a0 While the area nearby had been slightly maintained over the years, the immediate vicinity of this table clearly had not.\u00a0 It had allowed some hearty young saplings the opportunity to reach toward the sky, regardless of what obstacle loomed overhead.\u00a0 What made this noteworthy, however, was viewed from the other side of the table.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/05\/sitting_tree_34241.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4603\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/05\/sitting_tree_34241-333x500.jpg\" alt=\"sitting_tree_34241\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/05\/sitting_tree_34241.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/05\/sitting_tree_34241-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/05\/sitting_tree_34241-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a>Yes, I know.\u00a0 It looks like a butt.\u00a0 This tree looks like it&#8217;s sitting on the edge of the board.\u00a0 I saw it, others I know saw it, even my little kids saw it.\u00a0 Must be the groove in the middle.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not going to the point of wondering if it&#8217;s an ash tree, though.\u00a0 Sorry, I couldn&#8217;t resist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While poking around in the trees, I came upon a picnic table which hadn&#8217;t seen a lot of love lately.\u00a0 While the area nearby had been slightly maintained over the years, the immediate vicinity of this table clearly had not.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4602\">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-4602","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\/4602","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=4602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4605,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602\/revisions\/4605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}