{"id":7973,"date":"2021-08-10T23:48:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T21:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/?p=7973"},"modified":"2021-08-10T23:48:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T21:48:03","slug":"go-where-the-wild-winds-blow-gemab21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/?p=7973","title":{"rendered":"GO WHERE THE WILD WINDS BLOW: #GEMAB21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the fifth time, and ten years after our first visit (oh how time flies!), we returned to Chambley, home of the Grand Est Mondial Air Balloons or #GEMAB, in July 2021. Long time did we not believe this huge event would take place, but as it seems, Covid only affects politicians and media, not balloonists ;-)<\/p>\n<p>Spending a total of six days in France before we moved on to our next event, we did four flights altogether, most of them in very windy conditions&#8230; but well, that&#8217;s Chambley as we know it. A lot of fun was had nevertheless &#8211; isn&#8217;t meeting friends even more important than flying every slot, anyway? :-)<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the fifth time, and ten years after our first visit (oh how time flies!), we returned to Chambley, home of the Grand Est Mondial Air Balloons or #GEMAB, in July 2021. Long time did we not believe this huge event would take place, but as it seems, Covid only affects politicians and media, not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[19,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973"}],"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=7973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7975,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973\/revisions\/7975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}