{"id":445,"date":"2013-01-25T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=445"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:46:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:46:06","slug":"weekend-reflections-tulsas-cesar-pellis-duct-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=445","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Reflections &#8211; Tulsa&#8217;s Cesar Pelli&#8217;s Duct Tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/8412294131\/\" title=\"BOK Center Reflections by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BOK Center Reflections\" height=\"367\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/8412294131_0221433d9e-300x220.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Reflections off Tulsa&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BOK_Center\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BOK Center\">BOK Center<\/a> featuring a 600 foot long and 103 foot tall glass panel tilted at 5 degrees that wraps partway around the building. It&#8217;s always good for reflections<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/8396285929\/\" title=\"20100428_9 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20100428_9\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/8396285929_8ae754004f-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The building was designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C%C3%A9sar_Pelli\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"C\u00e9sar Pelli\">Cesar Pelli<\/a> and of course he used all sorts of local influences such Tulsa&#8217;s Native American and art deco heritage. He won&#8217;t admit but I think he was thinking about tornadoes that frequent tornado alley. Personally I love the building even though it reminds some of my fellow Tulsans of a roll of duct tape coming undone or maybe even a big old hubcap. Speaking of tornadoes, I hope that one never hits that glass panel. We&#8217;ll have glass all over Tulsa when that happens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weekendreflection.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Weekend Reflections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/zemified_e.png\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflections off Tulsa&#8217;s BOK Center featuring a 600 foot long and 103 foot tall glass panel tilted at 5 degrees that wraps partway around the building. It&#8217;s always good for reflections. The building was designed by Cesar Pelli and of course he used all sorts of local influences such Tulsa&#8217;s Native American and art deco [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3764,"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":[478,70,44,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bok-center","category-oklahoma","category-tulsa","category-weekend-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445"}],"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=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}