{"id":712,"date":"2012-04-02T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=712"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:53:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:53:04","slug":"our-world-leedey-oklahoma-tornado-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=712","title":{"rendered":"Our World – Leedey, Oklahoma Tornado Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"

Work took me way out to western Oklahoma last week to the oilfield and ranching town of Leedey<\/b><\/a>. I got there a little early and so checked out the local city park.<\/p>\n

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In amongst the war memorial and playground was a seemingly friviolous steel structure. It was twisty and turney (that is a word here in Oklahoma) and had Christmas lights on it and several everyday objects.<\/p>\n

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It turns out that it is not frivolous at all. It is a memorial to the six people who died in a tornado that hit Leedey on May 31, 1947<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

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What a memorial. Apparently it was built by school children aged seven through eighteen during art classes. I think the monument is a tribute to the kids as well as the victims of the storm.<\/p>\n

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And guess what there was a geocache hidden right nearby named “Leedey Park<\/a><\/b>” placed by kbaldeagle and  Jeritexas.<\/p>\n

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(I actually don’t think this is the real jail.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Another sight in town is the Jail. It seems pretty secure although they have a little work to do to get it up to standard. If you are a person that likes to engage in criminal behavior, western Oklahoma is not the place for you to be.<\/p>\n

Our World Tuesday<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Work took me way out to western Oklahoma last week to the oilfield and ranching town of Leedey. I got there a little early and so checked out the local city park. In amongst the war memorial and playground was a seemingly friviolous steel structure. It was twisty and turney (that is a word here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3465,"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":[103,70,150,50,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geocaching","category-oklahoma","category-our-world","category-sculpture","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712"}],"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=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}