{"id":960,"date":"2015-12-19T22:55:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T22:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=960"},"modified":"2015-12-19T22:55:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T22:55:35","slug":"lifting-off-in-a-hot-air-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"Lifting off in a hot-air balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/101-2-e1450565642947.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-961\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-961 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/101-2-e1450565642947-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/101-2-e1450565642947-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/101-2-e1450565642947-768x1026.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/101-2-e1450565642947-766x1024.jpg 766w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/101-2-e1450565642947-1200x1604.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/101-2-e1450565642947.jpg 1712w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 85vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most suspenseful moments of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/travel\/lighter-than-air-in-the-shenandoah-valley-lifting-off-in-a-hot-air-balloon\/2015\/12\/17\/bc096ef6-9549-11e5-8aa0-5d0946560a97_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">hot-air ballooning adventure<\/a> came a few minutes before our scheduled liftoff.<\/p>\n<p id=\"U9801591175335aMG\">In the eyes of our pilot, it was a bit too windy to fly. The winds had been diminishing, he said, but if they didn\u2019t come down some more, we might have to scrap the flight. And the window of opportunity was closing rapidly. If our flight didn\u2019t start in the next half-hour, there wouldn\u2019t be enough time to complete it before dark.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/travel\/lighter-than-air-in-the-shenandoah-valley-lifting-off-in-a-hot-air-balloon\/2015\/12\/17\/bc096ef6-9549-11e5-8aa0-5d0946560a97_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full story&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington Post, December 20, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most suspenseful moments of our hot-air ballooning adventure came a few minutes before our scheduled liftoff. In the eyes of our pilot, it was a bit too windy to fly. The winds had been diminishing, he said, but if they didn\u2019t come down some more, we might have to scrap the flight. And the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=960\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lifting off in a hot-air balloon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[149,111,109],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-shenandoah-valley","tag-travel","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}