{"id":3823,"date":"2018-01-19T10:03:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T08:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/?p=3823"},"modified":"2018-01-19T10:03:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T08:03:50","slug":"gordon-bennett-2018-its-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/?p=3823","title":{"rendered":"GORDON BENNETT 2018: IT&#8217;S OFFICIAL!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The German Ballooning Federation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dfsv.de\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DFSV<\/a> has published the results of the 2017 Qualification and thereby officially confirmed us to take part in the 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gordonbennett.aero\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coupe A\u00e9ronautique Gordon Bennett<\/a> Gas Balloon Race as Team Germany 3!  Bern here we come! :-)<\/p>\n<p>Huge thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ballonsportgruppe-stuttgart.de\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V.<\/a> &#8211; without all your help, we would never have made it!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/qgb2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"920\" height=\"920\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/qgb2017.jpg 920w, https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/qgb2017-145x145.jpg 145w, https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/qgb2017-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German Ballooning Federation DFSV has published the results of the 2017 Qualification and thereby officially confirmed us to take part in the 2018 Coupe A\u00e9ronautique Gordon Bennett Gas Balloon Race as Team Germany 3! Bern here we come! :-) Huge thanks to the Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V. &#8211; without all your help, we would never<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823"}],"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=3823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3824,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions\/3824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}