{"id":646,"date":"2008-11-19T11:21:09","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T18:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/?p=646"},"modified":"2008-11-19T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T18:21:09","slug":"a-world-record-setter-in-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2008\/11\/a-world-record-setter-in-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"A World Record Setter in the Family!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sister Cate recently participated in a <a href=\"http:\/\/wingsuitworldrecord.com\/index.html\">World Record Attempt<\/a> for Wingsuit Formation Flying. And they <a href=\"http:\/\/skydivernetwork.ning.com\/profiles\/blogs\/world-record-wingsuit\">succeeded!<\/a> As I understand it, they used the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=opi-uAzla-8\">first four days<\/a> to get folks use to formation flying and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/article1928090.ece\">71 of them made the formation happen on Nov 12<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why my sister Cate wants to throw herself from an airplane with nothing more than <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wingsuit_flying\">a wing and a prayer <\/a>is a story from another day.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Cate!<\/p>\n<p>Why have the UK papers covered it so well?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/3451588\/Skydiving-daredevils-break-world-record.html\">The Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1085709\/Flying-record-books-71-daredevil-skydivers-formation-California.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/article1928090.ece\">The Sun<\/a> ( with a picture Slide Show, but it is The Sun)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister Cate recently participated in a World Record Attempt for Wingsuit Formation Flying. And they succeeded! As I understand it, they used the first four days to get folks use to formation flying and then 71 of them made the formation happen on Nov 12. Why my sister Cate wants to throw herself from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2008\/11\/a-world-record-setter-in-the-family\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A World Record Setter in the Family!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[21,30],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-travel","tag-family","tag-flying"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-aq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}