{"id":615,"date":"2006-09-28T06:22:10","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T06:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=615"},"modified":"2011-12-01T06:22:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T06:22:36","slug":"dakota-roads-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"Dakota Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/dakota_roads.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>I&#8217;ve been on the road a lot lately, trying to cram in some North Dakota sights while the weather&#8217;s cooperative. You&#8217;ll see the fruits of that in upcoming posts as time allows. Of course I try to keep things on this blog related to Bismarck-Mandan, but I also want to share with you an epiphany I had in the process of this project.<\/p>\n<p>I was one of those guys who couldn&#8217;t wait to graduate high school early and get the heck OUT of this area for college. It wasn&#8217;t until after I&#8217;d been away for college, back again, off to my original home of Montana, then back again, that I started to realize how great a state we have. It may have something to do with a newfound love of history, or perhaps just with growing up&#8230;I don&#8217;t know. In any case, I have developed a love not only of our fair cities, but our state as well.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of stories and sights in North Dakota that deserve more exposure. The number of books by local authors and the size of our now-expanding Heritage Center should give good testament to that. Well, it&#8217;s about time this particular photographer \/ author got out to see them! I love our state&#8217;s unique features, people, and wildlife enough to share them with you. I hope you enjoy them along with the local content I provide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on the road a lot lately, trying to cram in some North Dakota sights while the weather&#8217;s cooperative. You&#8217;ll see the fruits of that in upcoming posts as time allows. Of course I try to keep things on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=615\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-road","category-scenic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","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=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}