{"id":21603,"date":"2013-06-23T13:35:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T18:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=21603"},"modified":"2013-06-23T20:19:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T01:19:14","slug":"longest-day-at-medicine-wheel-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=21603","title":{"rendered":"Longest Day at Medicine Wheel Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The end of day,\u00a0June 21, the summer solstice, at <a title=\"Medicine\" href=\"http:\/\/medicinewheel.vcsu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Medicine Wheel Park <\/a>in south Valley City, was in stark contrast to what had preceeded sunset:\u00a0Heavy rains Thurs evening, street flooding,\u00a0no travel,\u00a0water restrictions,\u00a0sewer lift\u00a0at capacity,\u00a0state of emergency,\u00a0streets\u00a0littered with mud\u00a0&amp; gravel. . .<\/p>\n<p>[easyrotator]erc_36_1372011741[\/easyrotator]<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Joe Stickler (pictured) explained the operation of the medicine wheel on summer solstice, the longest day, to a dozen\u00a0individuals who stopped at the park on the chance there would be slivers of sun\u00a0after a day of gloom.\u00a0\u00a0Photos for CSiNewsNow.com by Matt Sheppard,\u00a0 Sunset June 21, 2013\u00a0 <a title=\"Medicine\" href=\"http:\/\/medicinewheel.vcsu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Medicine Wheel Park<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, Valley City, North Dakota.\u00a0 Photo album at<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10151664304484512.1073741839.358562219511&amp;type=1&amp;l=69a6fa4c8b\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> FACEBOOK <\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>to share images with your friends.<\/p>\n<p>from VCSU web:\u00a0 In 1992 at Valley City State University, Professor Joe Stickler and his students began work on Medicine Wheel Park.\u00a0 The project soon expanded beyond the walls of the classroom to involve the community.\u00a0\u00a0 The Park features two solar calendars: A horizon calendar (the medicine wheel) and a meridian or noontime calendar.\u00a0 Other aspects of this unique 30-acre Park include Native American burial mounds, solar system model, the North Country National Scenic Trail and other woodland nature trials, several scenic overlooks of the Sheyenne River valley and Valley City,\u00a0 and a 3000 square foot perennial flower garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of day,\u00a0June 21, the summer solstice, at Medicine Wheel Park in south Valley City, was in stark contrast to what had preceeded sunset:\u00a0Heavy rains Thurs evening, street flooding,\u00a0no travel,\u00a0water restrictions,\u00a0sewer lift\u00a0at capacity,\u00a0state of emergency,\u00a0streets\u00a0littered with mud\u00a0&amp; gravel. . . [easyrotator]erc_36_1372011741[\/easyrotator] Dr. Joe Stickler (pictured) explained the operation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21603"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21605,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21603\/revisions\/21605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}