{"id":573,"date":"2008-05-30T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=573"},"modified":"2008-06-02T21:06:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T04:06:27","slug":"50_states_oklahoma_24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/30\/50_states_oklahoma_24.html","title":{"rendered":"50 States: Oklahoma (24)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/2426261245\/\" title=\"50 States: Oklahoma by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3176\/2426261245_173eda8061.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" alt=\"50 States: Oklahoma\" \/><\/a><BR><BR>My uncle Jack has lived in Oklahoma for as long as I can remember, and on two road trips, I&#8217;ve visited him in Tulsa on the way out west.  It&#8217;s always nice to see him, and to hang out with my cousins who live nearby.  <\/p>\n<p>The first time through, George and I took the opportunity to get the roof liner of our Jeep repaired; in the heat of the southern drive, the adhesive had melted enough that the fabric had begun to sag low enough that we&#8217;d brush it with our heads, so it needed to get fixed.  We watched <I>Speed 2<\/I>, another in a line of fine summer of &#8217;97 film fare we consumed along the trip.  <\/p>\n<p>Both times I&#8217;ve visited, Oral Roberts University and its mind-boggling architecture has been a must-see, and the Prayer Tower, pictured above, is the highlight of the tour.  Amazing stuff.  During our most recent trip, Aimee and I stopped at <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/04\/road_trip_days_three_and_four.html\">Robert&#8217;s in El Reno<\/A> for breakfast, and Aimee took the wheel of the Golf for her first official stretch of driving a manual transmission car on a real road, which was exciting and uneventful, in a good way.  She&#8217;ll always remember Oklahoma for that, I&#8217;m pretty sure&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Nearly halfway there as <a title=\"Flickr: Explore photos from your 50 States set on the map\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/sets\/72157604628502830\/map\/\">the map<\/a> fills up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My uncle Jack has lived in Oklahoma for as long as I can remember, and on two road trips, I&#8217;ve visited him in Tulsa on the way out west. It&#8217;s always nice to see him, and to hang out with my cousins who live nearby. The first time through, George and I took the opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-travel","tag-50states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}