{"id":3426,"date":"2017-10-16T20:20:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T18:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/?p=3426"},"modified":"2017-10-16T20:20:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T18:20:16","slug":"gas-balloon-examination-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/?p=3426","title":{"rendered":"GAS BALLOON EXAMINATION FLIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fabulous indian summer weather of the past days has just been perfect for ballooning &#8211; and so, I finally managed to do my examination flight for my gas balloon license. The sun was so hot that I even had to wear my scarf as a bandana! :-D<\/p>\n<p>After two hours and 35 minutes, we touched down in a clover field near the town of Schorndorf, and our passenger Angelika spotted a four leaf clover right away &#8211; a good omen for my future flights? ;-)<\/p>\n<p>A huge THANK YOU to my comrades at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ballonsportgruppe-stuttgart.de\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V.<\/a> &#8211; without all you, this would never have been possible! :-)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fabulous indian summer weather of the past days has just been perfect for ballooning &#8211; and so, I finally managed to do my examination flight for my gas balloon license. The sun was so hot that I even had to wear my scarf as a bandana! :-D After two hours and 35 minutes, we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3427,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions\/3427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}