{"id":665,"date":"2012-05-24T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=665"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:52:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:52:00","slug":"skywatch-friday-something-new-out-on-the-prairie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday &#8211; Something New Out on the Prairie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Used to be that what dominated the sky in western Oklahoma were grain elevators like this one in the town of Geary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7258336580\/\" title=\"Grain elevator - Geary, Oklahoma by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Grain elevator - Geary, Oklahoma\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/7258336580_86ba3924dc-176x300.jpg\" width=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The farmers are still growing lots of wheat in Oklahoma but they have also leased their minerals to the natural gas producers who have brought new features to the landscape.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7026471899\/\" title=\"IMG_8317 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_8317\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/7026471899_edd2230757-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Late afternoon, Canadian County, Oklahoma, drilling rigs trying to tap the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldoil.com\/January-2012-Woodford-growing-revenues-by-farming-to-oily-shale.html\">Cana Woodford Shale<\/a> formation &nbsp;for natural gas.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skyley.blogspot.com\/\">Skywatch Friday<\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Used to be that what dominated the sky in western Oklahoma were grain elevators like this one in the town of Geary. The farmers are still growing lots of wheat in Oklahoma but they have also leased their minerals to the natural gas producers who have brought new features to the landscape. Late afternoon, Canadian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4631,"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":[601,70,229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-natural-gas-industry","category-oklahoma","category-skywatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665"}],"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=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}