{"id":788,"date":"2012-01-14T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=788"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:54:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:54:37","slug":"jesse-james-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"Jesse James, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week we had great weather. One day at lunch I sneaked off to the nearby suburb of Sand Springs to check out a geocache, or two at their River City Park right on the Arkansas River.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6689462651\/\" title=\"IMG_6636 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6636\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/6689462651_8535b0c525-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was a lot of stuff to see on the way to the caches. The park has its own Rodeo Arena.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6689460867\/\" title=\"IMG_6635 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6635\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/6689460867_a860e5f19c-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Complete with grandstands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6689450329\/\" title=\"IMG_6632 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6632\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/6689450329_99f6b67043-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No horses in the grandstands though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6689436589\/\" title=\"IMG_6626 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6626\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/6689436589_8f617ed47a-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a bicycle BMX park also. It looks like loads of fun..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6689448777\/\" title=\"IMG_6631 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6631\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/6689448777_89fc3a9195-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did a little trespassing and got up on the levee. Strictly forbidden,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6689438793\/\" title=\"IMG_6627 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6627\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/6689438793_524decaa45-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>but officer I wanted to get some shots of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gerdauameristeel.com\/index.cfm\">Gerdau Steel Mill<\/a>. It has been shut down, as far as I can tell, since 2009. The place used to be bustling. Pretty sad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6689427811\/\" title=\"IMG_6623 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6623\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/6689427811_45637db772-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I finally got close to the cache. It is called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/seek\/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC1Z4XG\">Jesse James<\/a>.&#8221; I am not going to spoil things by showing the cache location.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6689424801\/\" title=\"IMG_6622 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6622\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/6689424801_9a832f03a9-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is not named after the outlaw but a famous bucking horse. I googled and searched. There was a bucking horse of that name back in the early 1960&#8217;s that couldn&#8217;t hardly be ridden by anybody but I couldn&#8217;t close the loop with Sand Springs, Oklahoma nor Willie Mendell. Anybody out there know anything about Jesse James the horse?<\/p>\n<p>I love mysteries like that.<\/p>\n<p>Well anyways, I got back to my car after all my wandering around and guess what&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6689465099\/\" title=\"IMG_6637 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6637\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/6689465099_a8c5242020-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All was well with my (Kia) Soul.<\/p>\n<p>Have you had any good walks lately?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week we had great weather. One day at lunch I sneaked off to the nearby suburb of Sand Springs to check out a geocache, or two at their River City Park right on the Arkansas River. There was a lot of stuff to see on the way to the caches. The park has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5057,"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":[103,679,680],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geocaching","category-walks","category-wandering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788"}],"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=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}