{"id":1688,"date":"2009-07-27T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:12:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:12:38","slug":"irish-geocaching-hazard-in-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1688","title":{"rendered":"Irish Geocaching Hazard in Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who know me just a little bit realize that I am totally OCD about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/\">Geocaching<\/a>. Its almost like breathing. I can go without for a while but I have to get some air every now and then. What a lot of people don&#8217;t know is that I have a lot of Irish in me from my Mother. She took a lot of pride in it, and so do I. But there is a lot more to being Irish than getting roaring drunk on Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day. You have to honor the other traditions, even when geocaching.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday I went out to find some caches. I found nine, which is a good day for me. The first one I found was a tiny little tube tied to a tree out in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"800th Cache by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/3758676929\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"800th Cache\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/3758676929_3dbab4856d-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you see it? Took me a while to spot it. I&#8217;m kind of proud of it because it was my 800th find!<\/p>\n<p>Geocaching has its hazards. Saturday, I encountered ticks, chiggers, thorns, and poison ivy. I&#8217;m not allergic to poison ivy, yet.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"Poison Ivy by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/3759477776\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Poison Ivy\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/3759477776_4d8236911d-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Poison ivy is nothing to mess with! I am careful with it, even though I&#8217;m not allergic to it. Because you can get an allergy all the sudden.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t see any snakes although I&#8217;m pretty sure some saw me in the waist high grass, swamps, and brush I encountered. I didn&#8217;t run into any angry ranchers or farmers, or meth lab operators for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>I did stumble onto something that gave me pause, that made me say, &#8220;I&#8217;m backing out of here really slow, I am not messing with anything, I&#8217;m P&amp;A&#8217;ing (plugging and abandoning to us oilfield trash) this cache. I just want to get out of here in one piece.&#8221; It was a hazard that geocachers with Irish blood know and respect.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"Elf Door by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/3758679229\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Elf Door\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/3758679229_7a0a624304-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">The Irish Know to Leave the Little People Alone. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who know me just a little bit realize that I am totally OCD about Geocaching. Its almost like breathing. I can go without for a while but I have to get some air every now and then. What a lot of people don&#8217;t know is that I have a lot of Irish in me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8005,"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":[103,215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geocaching","category-totally-made-up-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688"}],"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=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}