{"id":7070,"date":"2015-05-29T05:21:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T05:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/?p=7070"},"modified":"2017-05-09T02:10:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T02:10:50","slug":"birthday-ballooning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/?p=7070","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Ballooning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon spoilt me with a surprise ballooning excursion for my birthday.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We were up early and on our way &nbsp;to Canterbury Ballooning in Hororata before dawn. Lift off was at around 7:30 &nbsp;with a temperature of &nbsp;of -4&nbsp;\u00b0C . It was just the two of us and the pilot.<\/li>\n<li>Fantastic views of the frosty plains and snow capped &nbsp;mountains. Best present EVA.<\/li>\n<li>Canterbury ballooning was pretty well set up. First time we have seen ipads used &nbsp;very well for signing in. &nbsp;Pilot &nbsp;was a bit prickly as soon as Sim mentioned drones (what is it with pilots?) but eventually warmed up a bit.<\/li>\n<li>Landing in a locked field and having to \u2018hop\u2019 the fence was cool.<\/li>\n<li>Champagne to toast a successful flight.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/wp-content\/gallery\/20150529-birthday\/20150529-06097.jpg\" alt=\"20150529-06097\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then off to the Antarctic center &nbsp;with a stop off at the Sheffield pie shop on the way, followed by &nbsp;dinner at a Thai fusion restaurant to end the day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/wp-content\/gallery\/20150529-birthday\/20150529-0592.jpg\" alt=\"20150529-0592\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hot Air Ballooning, Canterbury (Rexday) - May 2015\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DLPfVGw2wYg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vicki&#8217;s 35th birthday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-7070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-birthday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7686,"href":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7070\/revisions\/7686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}