{"id":6082,"date":"2018-06-24T08:38:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T13:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=6082"},"modified":"2018-06-24T08:38:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T13:38:18","slug":"grand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=6082","title":{"rendered":"Grand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2018\/06\/fallen_farm_48267-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6081\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2018\/06\/fallen_farm_48267-9-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2018\/06\/fallen_farm_48267-9.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2018\/06\/fallen_farm_48267-9-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2018\/06\/fallen_farm_48267-9-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t know why it struck me the way it did, but I suddenly found myself marveling at how large this barn is.\u00a0 It must have been quite an undertaking to build it, and I bet it was a fantastic asset when this Fallen Farm was operating in its heyday.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the sort of thing that, on its most basic level, enthrals so many people when they see old buildings in decay.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a neat journey to imagine what the structures must have been like when they were a home, a business, and a way of life.\u00a0 It&#8217;s remarkable what it must have taken to build them way back then, to get the materials and labor to a remote location and construct something that people would later drive by and photograph.\u00a0 It&#8217;s nice to wonder how the mundane had become so enchanting over the years and even generations.\u00a0 And, of course, to wonder how many lives had been affected by these buildings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there&#8217;s the wistful realization that these structures don&#8217;t have much time left.\u00a0 Many of my favorite Fallen Farms are no longer in existence.\u00a0 Maybe later this year I&#8217;ll feature a few.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why it struck me the way it did, but I suddenly found myself marveling at how large this barn is.\u00a0 It must have been quite an undertaking to build it, and I bet it was a fantastic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=6082\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6081,"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-6082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fallen-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082","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=6082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6083,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082\/revisions\/6083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}