{"id":5339,"date":"2017-01-01T08:50:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T13:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5339"},"modified":"2017-01-02T08:57:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T13:57:17","slug":"happy-birthday-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5339","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/01\/capitol_2017_44339.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/01\/capitol_2017_44339-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"capitol_2017_44339\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/01\/capitol_2017_44339.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/01\/capitol_2017_44339-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/01\/capitol_2017_44339-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>You&#8217;d think I would be wishing you a Happy New Year, but that&#8217;s so cliche&#8217;.\u00a0 Instead I&#8217;m celebrating the birthday of this website.\u00a0 It was New Year&#8217;s Day 2006 when I started this thing with a photo of the year in the capitol windows.\u00a0 Since then I&#8217;ve written thousands of posts, with more thousands of photos, and I&#8217;m still standing.<\/p>\n<p>I used to post almost daily, and wondered how long it would be until I simply ran out of material.\u00a0 That hasn&#8217;t happened.\u00a0 There have been plenty of life changes since then&#8230;kids, new house, severe medical setbacks, and just generally being busy.\u00a0 For instance, it&#8217;s been two months since I&#8217;ve taken any significant photos, even though I bought a new drone in December!\u00a0 Life is like that some times.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping the next couple of months bring a slowdown so I can get back to doing what I enjoy: roaming Bismarck-Mandan and other parts of North Dakota, having fun with my cameras and sharing the results here.\u00a0 Hopefully there will be many more anniversaries like this one each New Year&#8217;s Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think I would be wishing you a Happy New Year, but that&#8217;s so cliche&#8217;.\u00a0 Instead I&#8217;m celebrating the birthday of this website.\u00a0 It was New Year&#8217;s Day 2006 when I started this thing with a photo of the year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5339\">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":[8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339","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=5339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5341,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions\/5341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}