{"id":857,"date":"2011-11-04T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=857"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:56:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:56:16","slug":"oral-roberts-university-prayer-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=857","title":{"rendered":"Oral Roberts University Prayer Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6311961824\/\" title=\"IMG_7262 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_7262\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/6311961824_d690cb5e7c-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prayer_Tower\"><b><span style=\"color: red;\">prayer tower<\/span><\/b><\/a> is at the center of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oru.edu\/\"><b><span style=\"color: red;\">Oral Roberts University<\/span><\/b><\/a> campus. ORU is a christian university her in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The tower was designed by Frank Wallace, who designed some of the other buildings on campus, and built in 1967. It is built to look like a cross from any angle. The lattice work is symbolic of the crown of thorns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6311956042\/\" title=\"IMG_7257 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_7257\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/6311956042_902c069ae0-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is certainly a striking building. It has many reflective surfaces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6311955028\/\" title=\"IMG_7256 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_7256\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/6311955028_29652c011a-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is the centerpiece of the campus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6311937162\/\" title=\"IMG_7237 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_7237\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/6311937162_96656b1635-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, being in the natural gas industry, I noticed that they still have their natural gas fired flare still going at the top of the structure. I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m not the one paying for that!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weekendreflection.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"color: red; font-size: large;\"><b>Weekend Reflections<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prayer tower is at the center of the Oral Roberts University campus. ORU is a christian university her in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The tower was designed by Frank Wallace, who designed some of the other buildings on campus, and built in 1967. It is built to look like a cross from any angle. The lattice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5313,"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":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekend-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857"}],"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=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}