{"id":974,"date":"2011-06-23T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=974"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:59:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:59:41","slug":"western-oklahoma-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=974","title":{"rendered":"Western Oklahoma Road Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5863135350\/\" title=\"Cana Woodford Shale Drilling Rig by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cana Woodford Shale Drilling Rig\" height=\"254\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/5863135350_6b03467962-300x152.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">(Drilling rig drilling a horizontal well into the Cana Woodford Shale formation.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I had a meeting in western Oklahoma on Wednesday. I love driving out there. The sky just opens up and expands and so does my outlook on life. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5863133934\/\" title=\"IMG_5703 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5703\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/5863133934_50bb56027d-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">(Cryogenic Natural Gas Processing Plant under construction.) (sorry about the splotch)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was a nice dry, not too hot day. Just beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5863134668\/\" title=\"IMG_5704 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5704\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/5863134668_4b16e12985-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were reminders though of why so many people have storm shelters. This area saw a tornado come through just a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5863132444\/\" title=\"IMG_5701 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5701\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/5863132444_d826a2670a-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was lots of damage to houses and buildings and several people perished.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5862581211\/\" title=\"Grass Fire by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Grass Fire\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/5862581211_ab773b5867-300x202.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The dry weather is nice, but can lead to grass fires.<\/p>\n<p>I have always thought of western Oklahoma as the beauty and the beast kind of thing. It is beautiful but it can bite hard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skyley.blogspot.com\/\"><b><span style=\"color: red; font-size: large;\">Skywatch Friday<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Drilling rig drilling a horizontal well into the Cana Woodford Shale formation.) I had a meeting in western Oklahoma on Wednesday. I love driving out there. The sky just opens up and expands and so does my outlook on life. (Cryogenic Natural Gas Processing Plant under construction.) (sorry about the splotch) It was a nice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5760,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974"}],"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=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}