{"id":979,"date":"2007-04-04T04:08:06","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T04:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=979"},"modified":"2012-01-04T04:08:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T04:08:56","slug":"april-snow-makes-for-a-foggy-river-oh-and-a-subtle-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"April snow makes for a foggy river.  Oh, and a subtle announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/april_snow_2007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"204\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>The camera actually cuts through the fog pretty well. This was the scene as another wave of snow rolled in Monday afternoon. I love it! If I could have my way, we&#8217;d get a nice six-foot blizzard for a day, then let the April sun burn it off and fill up the river and lakes for us.<\/p>\n<p>One place that&#8217;s benefiting from this precipitation is east of Bismarck: The ND Game and Fish OWLS (Outdoor Wildlife Learning Site) along Bismarck Expressway. The catch &amp; release lake on the site has been dredged and the shoreline repaired, so this year will be a fantastic year for fish and wildlife there.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t had much time to take pictures or post on my blog lately, but that&#8217;ll change. I&#8217;ve been struggling to be a husband, dad, tax preparer, freelancer, churchgoer&#8230;the works. If something has to take a back seat when things get tough, &#8220;blogger&#8221; is at the top of the list. But it&#8217;s not a permanent list. I&#8217;m still running around with my camera every day&#8230;it&#8217;s just harder to get blogworthy stuff when my only ventures are for errands or work!<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah&#8230;BABY NUMBER TWO is on the way. That doesn&#8217;t complicate matters at all&#8230;does it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The camera actually cuts through the fog pretty well. This was the scene as another wave of snow rolled in Monday afternoon. I love it! If I could have my way, we&#8217;d get a nice six-foot blizzard for a day, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=979\">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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","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=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}