{"id":15704,"date":"2025-09-30T15:58:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15704"},"modified":"2025-09-30T15:58:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:58:44","slug":"a-guy-who-hates-crowds-checks-out-the-tulsa-state-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15704","title":{"rendered":"A Guy Who Hates Crowds Checks out the Tulsa State Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I am not much into crowds but I like State Fairs. How does that work you may wonder. Well you have to plan things is what I say. Read up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The planning started this past. Not only do I dislike crowds, I like a good deal. The Tulsa Library System has an Adult Summer Reading Program. You sign up for on an app and you do everything online except pick up your prize. The prize was a coffee cup and a book of coupons including a coupon to get into the fair for free. So anyway the day I went to the Fair I brought my coupon, and they took it. Phase 1 successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First thing I saw after I went through the gate. Doesn’t get any more state fair than this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Oh, I almost forgot. Go on a school day, early!! Do not go on the weekend if you don’t like crowds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I headed for Central Hall where the arts and crafts are and saw this. I thought it was funny as all get out. How do they get there? How do they vet the parents when they show up? I have questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first thing I saw was the photography exhibits. All sorts of talented photographers entered into the many different categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am reminded again that I am not a photographer. I’m a picture taker!! Anybody can take pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is my favorite photo. I thought it was hilarious. Surely it should have got 3rd prize don’t you think? Wait a minute, its that a photo of me? Probably not, probably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And then the pumpkin carving section. That’s always fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And this is my favorite pumpkin. Does it look like somebody?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And then the various projects done by students. They always amaze me with skill and imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lots of entries on grasses. You mean there is more than one kind of grass in the world? I get reminded of that every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They had entries on rocketry. I had never seen that before. I was involved with model rocketry when I was in high school and the first year of college. That was fun. I got to go the Air Force Academy and present some research I did on multistage model rockets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Enough with all that, I went to the next building where they had a petting zoo and some sheep and goats on display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And on to the animal barns. They animals on display were cows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And this guy giving me side-eye. He’s beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I ventured over the midway for an obligatory food shot. Not into the midway, nor the buildings where they sell stuff. It’s all hot and crowded and I don’t do it. That’s okay there is lots of other stuff to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Found my way to the beer tent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Got myself a corndog<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And a wheat beer and got the farthest table I could from everybody else. Easy to do at this time of day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out the Tulsa State Fair Web Site<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am not much into crowds but I like State Fairs. How does that work you may wonder. Well you have to plan things is what I say. Read up. The planning started this past. Not only do I dislike crowds, I like a good deal. The Tulsa Library System has an Adult Summer Reading […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[3294],"tags":[3272,1356],"class_list":["post-15704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-corner-of-the-world","tag-my-corner-of-the-world","tag-tulsa-state-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15704"}],"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=15704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15707,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15704\/revisions\/15707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}