{"id":822,"date":"2007-01-04T20:14:13","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T20:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=822"},"modified":"2011-12-24T20:14:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T20:14:45","slug":"no-parking-unless-theres-a-bag-over-the-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"No parking &#8211; unless there&#8217;s a bag over the sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/capitol_parking.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Every two years the parking situation at the Capitol changes dramatically. With all the increased traffic due to the legislative session, some allowances must be made. That&#8217;s why you&#8217;ll find certain No Parking signs covered for the duration of the session.<\/p>\n<p>I had an interesting incident involving this parking situation a few years back. I parked behind the state library, ran around to the front entrance to return some books, and came back to find that someone had backed into my vehicle. I have to commend the Highway Patrol on their fast response time, because an officer was already there to write a report.<\/p>\n<p>I looked like the bad guy initially because I was parked in a &#8220;No Parking&#8221; zone. But once I reminded the officer that the legislature was in session, he agreed: the person who didn&#8217;t look where they were backing up was at fault. I believe this is actually part of state law, but don&#8217;t know the exact citation.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that more areas have been opened to parking, it&#8217;s still going to be tough to park near the capitol for a little while. It&#8217;s nice to see, however, that the folks in charge of the grounds are trying to make more parking area available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every two years the parking situation at the Capitol changes dramatically. With all the increased traffic due to the legislative session, some allowances must be made. That&#8217;s why you&#8217;ll find certain No Parking signs covered for the duration of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=822\">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":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-bismarck-mandan","category-cool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","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=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}