{"id":5536,"date":"2017-06-05T22:05:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T03:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5536"},"modified":"2017-06-05T22:12:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T03:12:18","slug":"reflections-at-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5536","title":{"rendered":"Reflections at church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/05\/church_dji_0671-3_hdr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/05\/church_dji_0671-3_hdr-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/05\/church_dji_0671-3_hdr.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/05\/church_dji_0671-3_hdr-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/05\/church_dji_0671-3_hdr-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>This was my destination last Friday as I meandered through the countryside, one of two destinations I&#8217;d planned to visit after taking off work a little early.\u00a0 My wife teased me, saying that I would be home much later than the &#8220;just a couple of hours&#8221; that I estimated.\u00a0 She was right&#8230;I got into position and, seeing the sky to the west developing in a way that was sure to provide a colorful splash at sunset, I couldn&#8217;t resist.\u00a0 I put out my camping chair, got my gear ready, and waited.\u00a0 I was not disappointed.\u00a0 I even got the right angle to catch the sunset reflecting off the windows!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/06\/church_dji_0437-41_hdr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/06\/church_dji_0437-41_hdr-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/06\/church_dji_0437-41_hdr.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/06\/church_dji_0437-41_hdr-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/06\/church_dji_0437-41_hdr-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>As for the other angle, you can see that it was a great sunset all around.\u00a0 I was going for the color in the east rather than the blazing sunset in the west, but they both have their appeal.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t help but try to catch the sun through the steeple.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/06\/one-more-photo-txt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5539\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/06\/one-more-photo-txt-281x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/06\/one-more-photo-txt-281x500.jpg 281w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/06\/one-more-photo-txt-84x150.jpg 84w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/06\/one-more-photo-txt-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/06\/one-more-photo-txt.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/a>As far as that &#8220;just a couple of hours&#8221; thing &#8211; well, this image says it all.\u00a0 I&#8217;m thankful to have a gracious and patient wife.\u00a0 Being married to me should make her eligible for some sort of lifetime achievement award!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was my destination last Friday as I meandered through the countryside, one of two destinations I&#8217;d planned to visit after taking off work a little early.\u00a0 My wife teased me, saying that I would be home much later than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5536\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5537,"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":[21,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-the-road","category-sunset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536","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=5536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5540,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536\/revisions\/5540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}