{"id":330,"date":"2007-12-12T00:18:27","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T00:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=330"},"modified":"2007-12-12T00:18:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T00:18:27","slug":"flyingmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/flyingmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Men!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/alex\/FlyingSquirrel.png!\nImagine diving out of an airplane thousands of feet in the air, reaching terminal velocity and then landing right back on the ground, all without a parachute.  This has been a dream of man since Leonardo da Vinci sketched out his first plans  and probably far before that.\nYesterday the \"New York Times\":<a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.com\">http:\/\/nytimes.com<\/a> ran an article about one of the forerunners in what is formally called wingsuit diving, Jeb Corliss.  Mr. Corliss came to wingsuit diving (which is basically people trying to be flying squirrels) after trying base-jumping and shark-baiting so you can imagine how dangerous this is.  Still, despite it's danger, there are teams in at least half a dozen countries trying to be the first to perfect the art of falling without a parachute.  The original article can be found \"here\":<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/10\/sports\/othersports\/10flying.html?ex=1198040400&#038;en=2246abb0d4805064&#038;ei=5070&#038;emc=eta1\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/10\/sports\/othersports\/10flying.html?ex=1198040400&#038;en=2246abb0d4805064&#038;ei=5070&#038;emc=eta1<\/a> at the New York Times website. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine diving out of an airplane thousands of feet in the air, reaching terminal velocity and then landing right back on the ground, all without a parachute&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[364,383],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","category-uncategorized","tag-technology","tag-us-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}