{"id":192,"date":"2012-08-06T10:11:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T17:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel\/?p=192"},"modified":"2016-08-27T10:04:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T17:04:51","slug":"august-6-big-sky-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/08\/06\/august-6-big-sky-country\/","title":{"rendered":"August 6: Big Sky Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-194\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Big-Sky-Country.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Big-Sky-Country.png\" alt=\"Big Sky of Montana\" title=\"Big Sky Country\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Big-Sky-Country.png 400w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Big-Sky-Country-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Montana&#8217;s Big Sky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Mile 2473 &#8211; Havre, Montana.<\/strong> A town polluted by gambling but better than Williston, North Dakota, a town polluted by oil drilling.  On to to Glacier National Park tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>~ Posted by Arjan<\/p>\n<p>The striking thing about today&#8217;s travel was the subtle transition from the continuous farmland of North Dakota to the western vistas of Montana. Both states have big skies and distant horizons, but the rich fields and standing ponds of North Dakota slowly morphed into the dry grasslands and gulches of central Montana. There was no neat dividing line like there is on the map.<\/p>\n<p>The driving on Route 2 is very easy. We covered 580 miles in 11 hours, with only one brief side trip to the Fort Peck Dam near Glasgow, Montana.<\/p>\n<p>~ Posted by P.J.<\/p>\n<p>[Photograph &copy; 2012 P.J. Gardner. All Rights Reserved.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mile 2473 &#8211; Havre, Montana. A town polluted by gambling but better than Williston, North Dakota, a town polluted by oil drilling. On to to Glacier National Park tomorrow. ~ Posted by Arjan The striking thing about today&#8217;s travel was the subtle transition from the continuous farmland of North Dakota to the western vistas of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/08\/06\/august-6-big-sky-country\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;August 6: Big Sky Country&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arjan","category-pj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}