{"id":5074,"date":"2016-06-06T07:27:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T12:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5074"},"modified":"2016-06-06T07:28:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T12:28:14","slug":"post-in-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5074","title":{"rendered":"Post in color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/06\/post_37959-61_hdr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5073\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/06\/post_37959-61_hdr-333x500.jpg\" alt=\"post_37959-61_hdr\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/06\/post_37959-61_hdr.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/06\/post_37959-61_hdr-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/06\/post_37959-61_hdr-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a>As you probably know, I have a soft spot for rural North Dakota, particularly around Bismarck-Mandan.\u00a0 I love roaming the back roads and section lines, trying to find picturesque views and document remnants from the pioneer past (which, in many areas, isn&#8217;t all that long ago).\u00a0 I&#8217;m a &#8220;city kid&#8221; who actually spent his childhood in the Rocky Mountains despite being a native NoDak, so I feel like somewhat an interloper in that regard&#8230;but I love the natural beauty of North Dakota and the spirit of the people here.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s one reason why I love taking photos like this one from Saturday.\u00a0 There is no other side of this gate; the adjacent quarter is open where this approach enters.\u00a0 The open fields of brilliant green were offset by a lovely morning blue sky, devoid of clouds for a change.\u00a0 The drab, colorless post was a perfect contrast to the beautiful natural hues in the background.<\/p>\n<p>I discovered something which I feel is very sad nearby&#8230;but I have to get ready for work now, so that&#8217;s going to have to be in another post in a day or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you probably know, I have a soft spot for rural North Dakota, particularly around Bismarck-Mandan.\u00a0 I love roaming the back roads and section lines, trying to find picturesque views and document remnants from the pioneer past (which, in many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5074\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5073,"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":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-bismarck-mandan","category-fallen-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074","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=5074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5075,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074\/revisions\/5075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}