{"id":1615,"date":"2009-10-05T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:11:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:11:46","slug":"my-world-meadow-gold-sign-on-route-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1615","title":{"rendered":"My World &#8211; Meadow Gold Sign on Route 66"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/3984697850\/\" title=\"Meadow Gold Sign by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Meadow Gold Sign\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/3984697850_e718530bb7-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Old Route 66 runs through the whole length of Oklahoma, west to east (or is it east to west). It has turned into quite a tourist attraction. People from all over the world come to drive it, stay in the motels, eat in the restaurants, and look at the sights. Oklahoma has its share of them.<\/p>\n<p>In Tulsa, Route 66 runs right through the south edge of downtown and then heads east along 11th street. Just to the east of downtown, 11th crosses Lewis,&nbsp;used to be a grocery store with a giant Meadow Gold Sign on top of it. As with all Route 66 monuments people liked it but worried about it. According to the Tulsa Foundation of Architecture <a href=\"http:\/\/tulsafoundationforarchitecture.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/meadow-gold-sign.html\">Blog<\/a>. The sign was saved by a consortium of government and private agencies, including the Tulsa Foundation of Architecture,&nbsp;with funding from the City of Tulsa.<\/p>\n<p>The sign has been restored and has permanent home and everybody involved is pretty happy about the whole situation.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/showyourworld.blogspot.com\/\">My World Tuesday<\/a> for photographs from all over the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Route 66 runs through the whole length of Oklahoma, west to east (or is it east to west). It has turned into quite a tourist attraction. People from all over the world come to drive it, stay in the motels, eat in the restaurants, and look at the sights. Oklahoma has its share of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[715,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-world","category-tulsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}