{"id":1493,"date":"2013-06-13T14:56:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T20:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2013-06-13T14:58:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T20:58:55","slug":"americana-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=1493","title":{"rendered":"Americana Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a short road trip (work related) to the northeast corner of Oklahoma, via central Kansas.\u00a0 I started a blog post about it a week ago, but the words never came in an orderly fashion.\u00a0 There is stuff to say about the trip, but each item I wanted to touch on seem to grow into an unmanageable\u00a0 diatribe.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll just make some bullet points and post some photos.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The drive on I-70, between Denver and Salina, is excruciatingly boring. \u00a0Aside from some wind farms, the scenery is the same for eight hours.<\/li>\n<li>The Interstate was constructed on a very long sloping ridge, so that the horizon drops off quickly and you can only see the landscape few miles in any direction before it became sky.<\/li>\n<li>Northeast Oklahoma is a lot like Missouri, which is right next door.\u00a0 A lot of trees and humidity.<\/li>\n<li>A lot of people have pictures of Jesus on the corner of their farms.<\/li>\n<li>A lot of people have anti-abortion signs on the corner of their farms.<\/li>\n<li>A lot of people were spraying chemicals on their crops in the evening.<\/li>\n<li>Fireflies continued to glow after they splattered against my windshield.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1495\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ok-8640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1495\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1495\" alt=\"Grand Lake of the Cherokee Dam\" src=\"http:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ok-8640-640x304.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ok-8640-640x304.jpg 640w, https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ok-8640-200x95.jpg 200w, https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ok-8640-1024x486.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ok-8640.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grand Lake O the Cherokees Dam, Oklahoma<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1496\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ok-8645.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1496\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1496\" alt=\"Flood gates releasing water\" src=\"http:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ok-8645-640x426.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ok-8645-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ok-8645-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ok-8645-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ok-8645.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flood gates releasing water<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1497\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ok-0130.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1497\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1497\" alt=\"Pinball machine in shed, NE Oklahoma.  It's ruined inside and out.\" src=\"http:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ok-0130-480x640.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ok-0130-480x640.jpg 480w, https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ok-0130-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ok-0130-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ok-0130.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pinball machine in shed, NE Oklahoma. It&#8217;s ruined inside and out.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a short road trip (work related) to the northeast corner of Oklahoma, via central Kansas.\u00a0 I started a blog post about it a week ago, but the words never came in an orderly fashion.\u00a0 There is stuff to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=1493\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}