{"id":2683,"date":"2014-08-23T09:23:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T13:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/blog\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2018-04-07T16:33:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T20:33:19","slug":"balloons-over-thayer-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/23\/balloons-over-thayer-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Balloons over Thayer Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As dawn broke on a beautiful Saturday morning, I heard what sounded like bursts of rushing air in the distance. \u00a0The sound was unfamiliar, but was growing louder, so I walked outside to investigate. \u00a0Over the lake were hot air balloons, with more coming from the south. \u00a0I snapped some photos and took movies with my cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>The balloons were beautiful, and amazingly, it was easy to have a conversation with the balloonists. \u00a0My neighbor Tom Ross, from his dock, \u00a0greeted one balloonist with &#8220;beautiful morning!&#8221;, to which he replied &#8220;it is a beautiful morning&#8221;. \u00a0I also replied to one balloonist&#8217;s greeting, which you can hear in the movie below. \u00a0Several balloons descended low over the water, with one actually splashing into the lake before regaining altitude, laughing as water poured from the gondola. \u00a0The movie is below, and if you&#8217;re impatient, skip to 3:17 into the movie to see the splash-down.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"735\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3G56kFS3bBg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As dawn broke on a beautiful Saturday morning, I heard what sounded like bursts of rushing air in the distance. \u00a0The sound was unfamiliar, but was growing louder, so I &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,15,58,103],"class_list":["post-2683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upnorth","tag-alden","tag-balloons","tag-hot-air-balloons","tag-thayer-lake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4243,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions\/4243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}