{"id":3637,"date":"2023-08-29T06:30:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T11:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=3637"},"modified":"2024-02-23T13:12:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T19:12:44","slug":"the-heart-of-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=3637","title":{"rendered":"The Heart of Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Geographic Center of Texas<\/strong> is conveniently located in the middle of Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The geographic center is located between Brady and Brownwood. Texas Highways Magazine<\/a> has a nice article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brady, Texas<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

About 19 miles south of the geographic center is Brady, the heart of Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Traveling from Austin to Brady, you have three opportunities to visit Storms<\/a>, which has one of the best hamburgers on the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other Storms in Brady<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A line of thunderstorms moved through Central Texas in early June, 2023, creating tornadoes near Brady. Jim Clash<\/a> took some incredible photos near Brady and in the panhandle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Very cool photos. Jim C, you want an unpaid, but highly respected, position at WLBOTT?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brady \/ McCulloch Country Library<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Mr. Jim Kitchens performed for the children at the McCulloch Country Library. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mr. Kitchens is also the owner and founder of Kitchens Custom Saddles and Boot Boot Repair in Brady, Texas. His web site<\/a> has a beautiful poem honoring his father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am also a saddle maker by trade and a poet by heart, but a retired Texas Game Warden by profession.<\/em> – Jim Kitchens<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Geographic Center of Texas is conveniently located in the middle of Texas. The geographic center is located between Brady and Brownwood. Texas Highways Magazine has a nice article. Brady, Texas About 19 miles south of the geographic center is Brady, the heart of Texas. Traveling from Austin to Brady, you have three opportunities to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,29,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-heros","category-texas"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3637"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19212,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions\/19212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}