{"id":1827,"date":"2010-05-04T12:22:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T12:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2025-06-20T16:35:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T16:35:55","slug":"elk-city-to-joplin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/04\/elk-city-to-joplin\/","title":{"rendered":"Elk City to Joplin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Wednesday April 28, 2010: Day 5, Elk City, Oklahoma to Joplin, Missouri<br \/>\nVia: I40 and I44<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We are pretty much half way. We have lots of interesting things to report, but as we mentioned before those longer stories are going to have to wait. For now here a sampling of pictures:<\/p>\n<p>Fuel Added: 2 containers (we figured out it is easier if Christi holds the funnel while Eric pours)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1152-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1152-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elk City, Oklahoma:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1163-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1163-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, American Banjo Museum (you almost can&#8217;t get more Americana than this): <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1300-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1300-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1367-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1367-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tulsa, Oklahoma, World&#8217;s Biggest McDonald&#8217;s built over the highway:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1448-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1448-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sunset in Joplin, Missouri<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_1467-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1467-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>This is Part 6 of the Passage Across America series. Read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/01\/1814\/\">Part 5<\/a> here\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/29\/remembering-joplin-missouri\/\">Part 7 here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday April 28, 2010: Day 5, Elk City, Oklahoma to Joplin, Missouri Via: I40 and I44 We are pretty much half way. We have lots of interesting things to report, but as we mentioned before those longer stories are going &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/04\/elk-city-to-joplin\/\">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":[44,407,2,406,398,397],"tags":[143,140,132,133,141,142,144,88,145],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-missouri","category-northamerica","category-oklahoma","category-tourist-activities","category-united-states","tag-banjo-museum","tag-elk-city","tag-joplin","tag-missouri","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-oklahoma-city-bombing-memorial","tag-passage-across-america-on-one-load-of-fuel","tag-worlds-largest-mcdonalds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13242,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions\/13242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}