{"id":5682,"date":"2014-09-14T13:24:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T18:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5682"},"modified":"2014-09-14T13:24:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T18:24:42","slug":"fly-along-in-my-beautiful-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/09\/14\/fly-along-in-my-beautiful-balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly along in my beautiful balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storify\"><iframe src=\"\/\/storify.com\/wissewords\/fly-along-in-my-beautiful-balloon\/embed?border=false&#038;template=slideshow\" width=\"100%\" height=750 frameborder=no allowtransparency=true><\/iframe><script src=\"\/\/storify.com\/wissewords\/fly-along-in-my-beautiful-balloon.js?border=false&#038;template=slideshow\"><\/script><noscript>[<a href=\"\/\/storify.com\/wissewords\/fly-along-in-my-beautiful-balloon\" target=\"_blank\">View the story &#8220;Fly along in my beautiful balloon&#8221; on Storify<\/a>]<\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>\nSo a couple of weeks ago my brother and his family went on holiday to the Belgian Ardennes and took my mother with them for a long weekend, during which they went to a ballooning festival. That got my mum to talk about how she wanted to do that someday, which my sister in law (more or less; it&#8217;s complicated) remembered. So when she found somebody offering a ticket for such a balloon flight cheap online, she didn&#8217;t hesitate but talk that guy into giving the ticket to her for just a bouquet of flowers and some pictures from the flight. She&#8217;s awesome like that; her skill at social enginering would be scary if used for evil.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo cut a long story short, mum wanted somebody to go along with her, <em>nobody else<\/em> in the family wanted to or dared to, so I got to go along. Having to buy my own ticket even. But it was worth it and it was brilliant flying over the Dutch countryside on a perfect evening, live tweeting the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[View the story &#8220;Fly along in my beautiful balloon&#8221; on Storify] So a couple of weeks ago my brother and his family went on holiday to the Belgian Ardennes and took my mother with them for a long weekend, during which they went to a ballooning festival. That got my mum to talk about how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts-interesting-only-to-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5684,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions\/5684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}