{"id":502600,"date":"2010-04-01T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-126913287140313063"},"modified":"2010-04-01T12:12:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T16:12:44","slug":"south-dakota-state-of-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/502600","title":{"rendered":"South Dakota &#8211; state of denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_2hHaWhfpgV4\/S7TCifa0DoI\/AAAAAAABRAU\/yoDnBBKlkTs\/s1600\/Picture+1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 185px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_2hHaWhfpgV4\/S7TCifa0DoI\/AAAAAAABRAU\/yoDnBBKlkTs\/s320\/Picture+1.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455198946457816706\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/local.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=cliff+avenue,+south+dakota+near+sioux+falls&amp;sll=44.932193,-93.170531&amp;sspn=0.008628,0.01796&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=N+Cliff+Ave,+Sioux+Falls,+Minnehaha,+South+Dakota+57104&amp;ll=43.607354,-96.719685&amp;spn=0.008825,0.026135&amp;t=h&amp;z=16&amp;lci=com.panoramio.all,org.wikipedia.en\">Just west of the Minnesota Saint Paul border<\/a> is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catfishbay.com\/Index.aspx\">Catfish Bay water ski park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s a puddle with a grandstand.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Some obsessed maniac dug a hole in the ground and turned it into a water skiing attraction &#8211; in South Dakota. A few hours west of the land of 10,000 lakes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s insane. It&#8217;s pathetic. It&#8217;s glorious.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Corn_Palace\">Corn Palace<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wall_Drug\">Wall Drug<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mount_Rushmore\">Mount Rushmore<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crazy_Horse_Memorial\">Crazy Horse Memorial<\/a>. They&#8217;re all in South Dakota, at the heart of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buffalo_Commons\">Buffalo Commons<\/a>. They&#8217;re all crazy. Doomed. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Just like humanity, not to mention <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dark_energy\">our ever dissolving universe<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Catfish Bay is an honored member of the trans-galactic museum of the Deniers of Doom.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><small><\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5587346-126913287140313063?l=notes.kateva.org' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just west of the Minnesota Saint Paul border is the Catfish Bay water ski park. It&#8217;s a puddle with a grandstand. Some obsessed maniac dug a hole in the ground and turned it into a water skiing attraction &#8211; in South Dakota. A few hours west of the land of 10,000 lakes. It&#8217;s insane. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}