{"id":5410,"date":"2017-08-27T22:10:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T22:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2017-08-27T22:11:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T22:11:52","slug":"driving-through-montana-while-so-many-fires-were-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=5410","title":{"rendered":"Driving through Montana while so many fires were burning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We drove through Montana on 8\/25\/17 to get from Buffalo, WY to Kalispell, MT. \u00a0We did the drive in 3 days making two stops.<\/p>\n<p>There are several fires burning in Montana; we passed several small burned areas near the freeway and could see a lot of smoke in the air near Butte MT. \u00a0While spending one night near Butte I didn&#8217;t go outside as the smoke was so thick.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of how smoky the air was around Butte:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Smoke-in-the-sky-near-Butte.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5411\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Smoke-in-the-sky-near-Butte-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Smoke-in-the-sky-near-Butte-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Smoke-in-the-sky-near-Butte.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We drove through Montana on 8\/25\/17 to get from Buffalo, WY to Kalispell, MT. \u00a0We did the drive in 3 days making two stops. There are several fires burning in Montana; we passed several small burned areas near the freeway and could see a lot of smoke in the air near Butte MT. \u00a0While spending &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=5410\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Driving through Montana while so many fires were burning<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-145-kalispell-mt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5412,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions\/5412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}