{"id":7161,"date":"2022-05-03T23:56:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T04:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=7161"},"modified":"2022-05-03T23:56:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T04:56:03","slug":"arena-winter-walkabout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=7161","title":{"rendered":"Arena winter walkabout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2022\/05\/arena_church_35142.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2022\/05\/arena_church_35142.png 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2022\/05\/arena_church_35142-150x100.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2022\/05\/arena_church_35142-450x300.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the first photo I ever took of St. John&#8217;s church in Arena, ND.  It was in much better shape back then.  Since then I&#8217;ve photographed it in all four seasons, all hours of the day and night, with Northern Lights in the background, from the ground and from the air.  Sadly, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;ll be around much longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I took a stroll around the church this winter, and I thought you&#8217;d like to see what I saw that sunny (yet chilly) January afternoon:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UAHhO4pVGCk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone has moved &#8220;into town&#8221; now, so if you visit the church you might have company.  I suggest going soon, as the church is deteriorating rapidly.  It&#8217;s so sad to see it go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first photo I ever took of St. John&#8217;s church in Arena, ND. It was in much better shape back then. Since then I&#8217;ve photographed it in all four seasons, all hours of the day and night, with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=7161\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7095,"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":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith","category-fallen-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161","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=7161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7162,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions\/7162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}