{"id":10144,"date":"2012-09-27T06:21:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T11:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=10144"},"modified":"2012-12-27T13:40:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T19:40:22","slug":"why-oklahoma-built-more-lakes-than-any-other-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/09\/27\/why-oklahoma-built-more-lakes-than-any-other-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Oklahoma Built More Lakes Than Any Other State"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10160\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Oklahoma Governor Robert S. Kerr, shown here when he was in office in the 1940s.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/09\/robert-s-kerr.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10160\" title=\"Robert S. Kerr\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/09\/robert-s-kerr-620x501.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"501\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Oklahoma Historical Society<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oklahoma Governor Robert S. Kerr, shown here when he was in office in the 1940s.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Two giants of Oklahoma politics \u2014 Senator Robert S. Kerr and House Speaker Carl Albert \u2014 used their influence to help bring the state\u2019s untamed natural water resources under control following World War II.<\/p><p>The result: Oklahoma has more than 200 manmade lakes. That\u2019s more than any other state. With demand for water increasing, is another lake and reservoir-building boom possible?<\/p><p><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]--><br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10144-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/09\/9-26-LakeHistory-AUDIO.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/09\/9-26-LakeHistory-AUDIO.mp3\">https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/09\/9-26-LakeHistory-AUDIO.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two giants of Oklahoma politics \u2014 Senator Robert S. Kerr and House Speaker Carl Albert \u2014 used their influence to help bring the state\u2019s untamed natural water resources under control following World War II.The result: Oklahoma has more than 200 manmade lakes. That\u2019s more than any other state. With demand for water increasing, is another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":10160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[491,14,16],"tags":[465,161,464,427,93],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10163,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144\/revisions\/10163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}