{"id":1218,"date":"2010-10-25T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:04:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:04:51","slug":"my-world-washington-irving-park-bixby-oklahoma-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1218","title":{"rendered":"My World &#8211; Washington Irving Park &#8211; Bixby, Oklahoma #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5108887191\/\" title=\"20101023_20 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20101023_20\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/5108887191_1da74e6c13-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The long suffering Washington Irving agreed to watch our mutts while we took a walk around the park.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Irving camped near here&nbsp;&nbsp;back in 1832 during his tour of the west.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5109525216\/\" title=\"20101023_34 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20101023_34\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/5109525216_b5023d43e6-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The City of Bixby has made this not just a park in honor of Washington Irving. It also has several memorials.<\/p>\n<p>There is a memorial to the victims of the 9-11 attack. A structural member from one of the collapsed buildings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5108875559\/\" title=\"20101023_16 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20101023_16\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/5108875559_f63265986d-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a memorial for the children died in the Murrah Building bombing in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5109469930\/\" title=\"20101023_14 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20101023_14\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/5109469930_d1cbbc9ddd-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a butterfly garden memorial for a young Bixby housewife and mother who was brutally murdered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5109540734\/\" title=\"20101023_40 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20101023_40\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/5109540734_809e46fd8f-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mean to make it all doom and gloom. Its not. The park is a great place for a boy and his dog to take a walk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5108895009\/\" title=\"20101023_24 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20101023_24\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/5108895009_07b8df6eb4-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting trees<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5109481156\/\" title=\"20101023_18 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20101023_18\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/5109481156_eb5d05b394-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Notice Sweetie in red.)<\/p>\n<p>Please check out <a href=\"http:\/\/showyourworld.blogspot.com\/\">That&#8217;s My World<\/a> for views from all over our world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long suffering Washington Irving agreed to watch our mutts while we took a walk around the park. Washington Irving camped near here&nbsp;&nbsp;back in 1832 during his tour of the west. The City of Bixby has made this not just a park in honor of Washington Irving. It also has several memorials. There is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}