{"id":4255,"date":"2018-05-01T22:26:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T20:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/?p=4255"},"modified":"2018-05-01T22:26:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T20:26:51","slug":"spring-festival-balloon-meeting-at-stuttgart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/?p=4255","title":{"rendered":"SPRING FESTIVAL BALLOON MEETING AT STUTTGART"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a most exciting Saturday at Stuttgart! Not only the weather situation was a bit of a gamble, but also the planned highlight of the day: Skydive world champion Klaus Renz jumping from one of our balloons and landing again on our launchsite just next to the Cannstatter Wasen!<\/p>\n<p>In the event, everything worked exactly like we planned it. All fifteen balloons took off in the afternoon, and Klaus Renz did a fantastic jump from the last balloon, piloted by Benedict Munz, and safe landing on our &#8220;Sattelplatz&#8221;. What an epic day.<\/p>\n<p>Most photos are by Dennis Straub this time (THANK YOU for your incredible talent!), as I was the competition director and had a lot of other stuff to do&#8230; ;-)<br \/>\nAnd of course thank you to everyone from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ballonsportgruppe-stuttgart.de\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V.<\/a> for contributing to this great event!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a most exciting Saturday at Stuttgart! Not only the weather situation was a bit of a gamble, but also the planned highlight of the day: Skydive world champion Klaus Renz jumping from one of our balloons and landing again on our launchsite just next to the Cannstatter Wasen! In the event, everything worked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4254,"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\/4255"}],"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=4255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4258,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions\/4258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}