{"id":5037,"date":"2016-05-07T11:38:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T16:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5037"},"modified":"2016-05-07T11:38:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T16:38:07","slug":"watching-those-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5037","title":{"rendered":"Watching those skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/05\/old_combine_37463-5_hdr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5036\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/05\/old_combine_37463-5_hdr-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"old_combine_37463-5_hdr\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/05\/old_combine_37463-5_hdr.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/05\/old_combine_37463-5_hdr-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/05\/old_combine_37463-5_hdr-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>One thing North Dakota does have is some of the best skies anywhere.\u00a0 That&#8217;s most evident at sunrise, sunset, during thunderstorms, and when the clouds do really cool, wispy things in the vibrant blue sky.\u00a0 This old combine gets to take it all in, sitting in a nice little meadow enjoying its retirement.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of tidbits about this photo: first, it&#8217;s got company.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a bird perched atop its chute.\u00a0 Second, someone was performing a controlled burn to the east, as you can see by light smoke over the hill on the left side of the photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing North Dakota does have is some of the best skies anywhere.\u00a0 That&#8217;s most evident at sunrise, sunset, during thunderstorms, and when the clouds do really cool, wispy things in the vibrant blue sky.\u00a0 This old combine gets to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5037\">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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fallen-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037","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=5037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5038,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037\/revisions\/5038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}