{"id":638,"date":"2006-10-09T06:32:58","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T06:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=638"},"modified":"2011-12-01T06:33:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T06:33:32","slug":"baga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"BAGA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/baga_gallery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Have you heard of those people who have lived in New York City for a long time but never visited the Statue of Liberty or other landmarks? There are a lot of them, and I&#8217;m pretty sure that there are millions of local equivalents anywhere you go. In Bismarck-Mandan, I happen to be one of those people. While I&#8217;d like to think that I have been a LOT of the Bismarck-Mandan area&#8217;s lesser known places, there are many commonly known places where I&#8217;ve never been. That&#8217;s going to change.<\/p>\n<p>One of my reasons for starting this blog, other than a place to park my photography and flex my writing skills a bit, was to kick myself in the rear and get out to visit things in the area I should have seen long ago. By visiting these people, places, and events and telling you about them with pictures to boot, I hope that everybody benefits. So far I&#8217;ve had a blast and learned a lot. Hopefully you do too!<\/p>\n<p>BAGA, the Bismarck Art and Gallery Association, is one place I had never visited. Today I rectified that as I went in and purchased an artist&#8217;s membership and wandered around the gallery. There&#8217;s some really cool work in there! I highly suggest you check it out. This photo shows one part of the gallery, but by no means all of it. I plan to have a little display of some of my photography when the opportunity presents itself.<\/p>\n<p>Are you feeling artistic? An artists&#8217; membership is only $25. If you&#8217;re a fan of art, take the time to visit and see for yourself what local artists are doing. You can purchase certain works if you so desire. BAGA is a neat part of our community, and I think we should all pay them an occasional visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard of those people who have lived in New York City for a long time but never visited the Statue of Liberty or other landmarks? There are a lot of them, and I&#8217;m pretty sure that there are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=638\">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":[8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","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=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}