{"id":8128,"date":"2011-07-04T12:55:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=8128"},"modified":"2011-09-11T14:45:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T20:45:34","slug":"spacious-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2011\/07\/spacious-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacious skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been taking some side roads on the way here and there to let Bear see a variety of country and livestock&#8230;my mission being to help him get used to the landscape of the west.  He gets quite a lot of exercise on our rides as he is back and forth in the back of the Jeep&#8230;watching and looking to see what there is to see.  I leave the passenger window cracked open enough that he can get plenty of scent as well.  He watches with such eager anticipation&#8230;it makes me look with new eyes as well.<\/p>\n<p><a target = \"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jul11\/4th1046.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jul11\/4th1046.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Early on Saturday we found this spot.  It is just a few miles away.  There is a paved road that winds around this small valley just a half mile off the highway.  The valley is subdivided.  Utilities and water are in, site markers are in place&#8230;it is just waiting for buyers.  It is a perfect place for us to walk.  There are 2 &#8220;courts&#8221; that have shade to leave the Jeep.<\/p>\n<p><a target = \"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jul11\/4th1049.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jul11\/4th1049.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We went back early this morning, the Fourth of July, Independence Day in America.  I am, of course, partial to Montana&#8217;s spacious skies.<\/p>\n<p><a target = \"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jul11\/4th1051.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jul11\/4th1051.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But, I know there are beautiful, spacious skies all over the United States as well as the rest of the earth.  I hope your skies are beautiful today, no matter where they are.  Happy Fourth of July to all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been taking some side roads on the way here and there to let Bear see a variety of country and livestock&#8230;my mission being to help him get used to the landscape of the west. He gets quite a lot of exercise on our rides as he is back and forth in the back of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings","category-montana"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8885,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128\/revisions\/8885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}