{"id":866,"date":"2007-01-30T20:47:11","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T20:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=866"},"modified":"2011-12-24T20:48:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T20:48:18","slug":"blowin-off-some-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=866","title":{"rendered":"Blowin&#8217; off some steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/heskett_sun.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>The sun caught the exhaust from the Heskett Station power plant just right as I was driving by the other day. They were offline for quite a while last year for updates and maintenance, but they appear to be chugging away as usual nowadays!<\/p>\n<p>With plants like the power station and the refinery downstream pushing warm water into the Missouri River, it&#8217;s no surprise that parts of the river don&#8217;t even freeze over. In fact, there are flocks of geese that simply don&#8217;t migrate; they just stay near the refinery and enjoy the open water year-round. I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s why the big Tesoro sign at the entry to the refinery has a goose on it.<\/p>\n<p>Power plants are really cool. I&#8217;ve seen the inside of a few, but not Heskett. Time to make some inquiries&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun caught the exhaust from the Heskett Station power plant just right as I was driving by the other day. They were offline for quite a while last year for updates and maintenance, but they appear to be chugging &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=866\">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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energytechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","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=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}