{"id":6957,"date":"2021-08-08T15:47:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T20:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=6957"},"modified":"2021-08-08T16:07:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T21:07:14","slug":"reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=6957","title":{"rendered":"Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2021\/08\/govt_bay_69345-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2021\/08\/govt_bay_69345-7.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2021\/08\/govt_bay_69345-7-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2021\/08\/govt_bay_69345-7-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>2021 has been as busy as 2020, unfortunately&#8230;although it has allowed some photography time.  Sadly, I&#8217;m not posting them in a very timely fashion because I&#8217;m really busy.  Take this photo, for instance: at the time when it was taken, there was still ice on Lake Sakakawea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really liked the reflection on the perfectly calm water.  I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of personal reflection lately, too, and I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that there just isn&#8217;t enough time.  When I do take time off, I end up working at least as hard as when I&#8217;m on the job!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m working on a better work-life balance, but right now I&#8217;m still in the &#8220;as soon as I get _____ done&#8230;&#8221; phase.  Hopefully in a few weeks I&#8217;ll get to do some more roaming with my gear and decompress a bit.  Meanwhile, if I have opportunity, I <em>do<\/em> have plenty of photos to share.  Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 has been as busy as 2020, unfortunately&#8230;although it has allowed some photography time. Sadly, I&#8217;m not posting them in a very timely fashion because I&#8217;m really busy. Take this photo, for instance: at the time when it was taken, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=6957\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6954,"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":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scenic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957","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=6957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6958,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions\/6958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}