{"id":5373,"date":"2018-09-24T17:12:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T15:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/?p=5373"},"modified":"2018-09-24T17:44:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T15:44:58","slug":"gordon-bennett-2018-the-preparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/?p=5373","title":{"rendered":"GORDON BENNETT 2018: THE PREPARATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Past weekend, we met at the balloon depot of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ballonsportgruppe-stuttgart.de\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V.<\/a> to inspect our gas balloon envelope and to prepare our basket and all the other gear we need for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gordonbennett.aero\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gordon Bennett<\/a> launch, set for this Friday in Bern, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday morning, we will leave Stuttgart. Fingers crossed for good weather! :-)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Past weekend, we met at the balloon depot of the Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V. to inspect our gas balloon envelope and to prepare our basket and all the other gear we need for the Gordon Bennett launch, set for this Friday in Bern, Switzerland. On Wednesday morning, we will leave Stuttgart. Fingers crossed for good weather!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5372,"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\/5373"}],"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=5373"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5378,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373\/revisions\/5378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}