{"id":152,"date":"2008-04-16T19:59:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T00:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2008-04-16T19:59:37","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T00:59:37","slug":"walking-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Walking home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful spring evening, made even more entertaining by this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/balloon1-20080416.jpg\" alt=\"Balloon\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It flew very nearly overhead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/balloon2-20080416.jpg\" alt=\"Balloon\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I lived in Las Cruces, New Mexico for a while, home of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mvbr.com\/\">Mesilla Valley Balloon Rally<\/a>. It&#8217;s a good area for ballooning in general, so I used to see them soaring overhead frequently. It&#8217;s much less common here in central Pennsylvania, though. Neat!<\/p>\n<p>I even came home and did something about the dust woolly-mammoths hiding in the corners. <\/p>\n<p>I have a new plan: I&#8217;m going to win tonight&#8217;s PowerBall. Good, reliable investment strategy, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful spring evening, made even more entertaining by this: It flew very nearly overhead. I lived in Las Cruces, New Mexico for a while, home of the Mesilla Valley Balloon Rally. It&#8217;s a good area for ballooning in general, so I used to see them soaring overhead frequently. It&#8217;s much less common [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-must-be-spring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}