{"id":897,"date":"2003-04-19T16:22:29","date_gmt":"2003-04-19T20:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2003\/04\/19\/\/"},"modified":"2003-04-19T16:22:29","modified_gmt":"2003-04-19T20:22:29","slug":"897","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2003\/04\/897\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot air ballooning with a twist&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/cloudhopper.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clusterballoon.org\/cloudhop.htm\" rel=\"external\"><strong>Cloudhopper<\/strong><\/a> is a single-person hot-air balloon.  There is no basket: the pilot wears a harness that is attached to the balloon, with a fuel tank and burner situated behind him or her.  Compared to conventional hot-air balloons, cloudhoppers are very maneuverable and can land in relatively small areas; they are also very easy to store and transport between flights.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/cluster-ballooning.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><strong>Have you ever dreamed of floating into the sky with a giant bouquet of colorful toy balloons?<\/strong> That&#8217;s the idea behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clusterballoon.org\/cluster1.htm \" rel=\"external\"><strong>cluster&nbsp;ballooning<\/strong><\/a>.  The pilot wears a harness, to which a cluster of large, helium-filled balloons are attached.  Control is achieved by releasing ballast to ascend, or by bursting balloons to descend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot air ballooning with a twist&#8230; A Cloudhopper is a single-person hot-air balloon. There is no basket: the pilot wears a harness that is attached to the balloon, with a fuel tank and burner situated behind him or her. Compared to conventional hot-air balloons, cloudhoppers are very maneuverable and can land in relatively small areas; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}