{"id":82,"date":"2018-07-23T22:03:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T22:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/?p=82"},"modified":"2018-07-24T23:24:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T23:24:54","slug":"oooooooklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/2018\/07\/23\/oooooooklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Oooooooklahoma!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fun fact: We fill our weather balloons with helium to fly the AirCores, but Albuquerque, NM is the \u201cHot air ballooning capital of the world\u201d. We caught a few early morning risers while heading out of town to the second pitstop on our AirCore Roadtrip: the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s\u00a0Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) facility in Lamont, OK.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-89 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/Photo-Jul-20-8-14-53-AM-300x138.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/Photo-Jul-20-8-14-53-AM-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/Photo-Jul-20-8-14-53-AM-768x354.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/Photo-Jul-20-8-14-53-AM-1024x472.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-101 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/Map_NM-OK-300x141.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"611\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/Map_NM-OK-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/Map_NM-OK.png 602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 611px) 100vw, 611px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jack and Bianca \u201cdon\u2019t mess with Texas\u201d and their free 72 oz. steaks*,\u00a0 and instead carry on to Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plains&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_84\" style=\"width: 402px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84\" class=\"wp-image-84\" style=\"font-family: Raleway, Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;font-size: 14px\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/IMG_1510-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/IMG_1510-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/IMG_1510-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/IMG_1510-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-84\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remainder of New Mexico is littered with cholla cacti that we could see for miles on end.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_86\" style=\"width: 458px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86\" class=\"wp-image-86 \" style=\"font-family: Raleway, Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;font-size: 14px\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/IMG_1515-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/IMG_1515-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/IMG_1515-768x604.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2018\/07\/IMG_1515-1024x805.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-86\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">*Only free if you can devour in less than one hour<\/p><\/div>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a8j6E9FHXOw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun fact: We fill our weather balloons with helium to fly the AirCores, but Albuquerque, NM is the \u201cHot air ballooning capital of the world\u201d. We caught a few early morning risers while heading out of town to the second pitstop on our AirCore Roadtrip: the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s\u00a0Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) facility in&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/2018\/07\/23\/oooooooklahoma\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/2018\/07\/23\/oooooooklahoma\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-25 21:07:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/aircore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}