{"id":9156,"date":"2014-10-20T05:29:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T10:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=9156"},"modified":"2014-10-19T21:24:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T02:24:32","slug":"2014-tulsa-oktoberfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=9156","title":{"rendered":"2014 Tulsa Oktoberfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSCN2502 by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/15571922621\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3955\/15571922621_f81e8b9262_z.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2502\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friday,\u00a0\u00a0Heather, Logan, and I headed out to the <a href=\"http:\/\/tulsaoktoberfest.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tulsa Oktoberfest<\/a>. I had run a race the night before and as part of my entry fee I got a one liter stein. And you know something those steins don&#8217;t fill themselves. I had to take it Oktoberfest so it could realize it&#8217;s inner &#8220;steinness.&#8221; If you don&#8217;t know what that means then buy my upcoming book &#8220;The Inner Life of Beer&#8221; and learn all about it.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_20141017_135854 by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/15561571622\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3939\/15561571622_4ee755e662_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20141017_135854\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Logan is rocking his new Oktoberfest cap and pin. I think he looks great.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_20141017_133421 by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/15375054190\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5597\/15375054190_fcc763302a_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20141017_133421\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Logan and Heather make a great couple. I have no idea where he is looking.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSCN2508 by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/15574507345\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3941\/15574507345_3298365f31_z.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2508\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oktoberfest has really upped its game with its beer. It used to be pretty lame but they now have a wide selection of both foreign and domestics, Warsteiner, Boulevard, Marshall Brewing, Paulaner, in addition to the crappy market leading domestics. They had a pretty good variety of food also, bratwurst, sausages, schnitzel and the rest along with typical fair food.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSCN2506 by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/15388908810\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3952\/15388908810_88b1f7a0b2_z.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2506\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The people watching was world class with lots of people wearing chicken hats.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSCN2505 by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/15575398272\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3943\/15575398272_19abf34f0b_z.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2505\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And one guy that looked like a hipster Hasidic guy. \u00a0Hey, you know, the devout have to have beer also. Notice his stein. We also had some people right out of Breaking Bad.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSCN2512 by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/15574452155\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5600\/15574452155_eb8ee0c304_z.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2512\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lots of dancing going on to German music. My favorite is the cross generational type dancing.<\/p>\n<p>I think that a smooth and mellow time was had by all. 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I had run a race the night before and as part of my entry fee I got a one liter stein. And you know something those steins don&#8217;t fill themselves. I had to take it Oktoberfest so it could realize it&#8217;s inner &#8220;steinness.&#8221; If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[867,46],"tags":[1350,872,1406,1286],"class_list":["post-9156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oktoberfest","category-tulsa-oklahoma","tag-beer","tag-music-of-germany","tag-oktoberfest","tag-tulsa-oklahoma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156"}],"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=9156"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9165,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156\/revisions\/9165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}