{"id":9221,"date":"2016-10-10T11:52:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T15:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tusentakk2.com\/wordpress\/?p=9221"},"modified":"2016-10-10T11:52:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T15:52:53","slug":"heading-east-north-part-2-rapid-city-the-badlands-pierre-oct-3-6-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tusentakk2.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/heading-east-north-part-2-rapid-city-the-badlands-pierre-oct-3-6-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Heading East & North, Part 2 — Rapid City, the Badlands & Pierre, Oct. 3-6, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing east on October 3, we paused briefly to re-inact a remembered photo that featured my father, Wilbur (Bill) Shipley, in which the young man rode on the snout of a triceratops dinosaur. \u00a0Actually, a concrete triceratops, one of seven dinosaur sculptures on a hill overlooking\u00a0Rapid City, South Dakota, created to capitalize on the tourists coming to the Black Hills area to see Mount Rushmore. Constructed by the Works Progress Administration, the Dinosaur Park was dedicated in\u00a01936. \u00a0Dad was riding a grey\u00a0beast, but it turns out that the seven were painted green with white undersides in 1950, so when Dad took his ride I either didn’t exist or was under the age of seven.<\/p>\n\n\t\t