{"id":1501,"date":"2010-01-18T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:10:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:10:06","slug":"my-world-washington-irving-park-bixby-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1501","title":{"rendered":"My World &#8211; Washington Irving Park &#8211; Bixby, Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Irving, author of &#8220;The Legend of Sleepy Hollow&#8221; took and extended trip to the West including parts of what is now Oklahoma way back when. He and his party camped on the Arkansas River near what is now called Washington Irving Park in Bixby, Oklahoma. It is not used very much and its a great place to walk the dogs and let SuperPizzaBoy ride his Triton, a three wheeled self propelled vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4283225368\/\" title=\"20100117_23 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/4283225368_0f7713d3b0-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"20100117_23\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The dogs and the kid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4282465719\/\" title=\"20100117_19 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/4282465719_8f77baa4f6-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100117_19\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very nice trails for exploring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4282421197\/\" title=\"20100117_5 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/4282421197_40aa798477-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100117_5\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I loved the snaky shadows of the trees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4283174408\/\" title=\"20100117_7 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/4283174408_0f5a939115-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100117_7\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Amphitheater built by the local Rotary Club. In the shadows is a seated statue of Washington Irving. He has a very long suffering look on his face.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4282451355\/\" title=\"20100117_15 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/4282451355_454bc21e85-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100117_15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SPB and the dogs having a little talk with Mr. Irving.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4283160464\/\" title=\"20100117_4 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/4283160464_da4d6298bc-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"20100117_4\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A great time was had by all. But there is an opportunity for reflection for the outside world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4283146026\/\" title=\"20100117_1 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/4283146026_97b44c91d4-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100117_1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The park has a memorial to those who perished in the World Trade Center attack. The memorial includes an ibeam from one of the buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/showyourworld.blogspot.com\/\">My World Tuesday<\/a> for other views of our world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Irving, author of &#8220;The Legend of Sleepy Hollow&#8221; took and extended trip to the West including parts of what is now Oklahoma way back when. He and his party camped on the Arkansas River near what is now called Washington Irving Park in Bixby, Oklahoma. It is not used very much and its a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7558,"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-1501","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\/1501"}],"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=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}