{"id":414,"date":"2015-10-17T21:54:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T21:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/?p=414"},"modified":"2015-10-17T21:54:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T21:54:07","slug":"wv-bridge-day-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/17\/wv-bridge-day-15\/","title":{"rendered":"WV Bridge Day &#8217;15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_417\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Unknown.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-417\" class=\"wp-image-417 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Unknown-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"WV Bridge Spanning New River Gorge\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New River Gorge Bridge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/10600555_10152860957013556_2563908366534367541_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-415 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/10600555_10152860957013556_2563908366534367541_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"10600555_10152860957013556_2563908366534367541_n\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/10600555_10152860957013556_2563908366534367541_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/10600555_10152860957013556_2563908366534367541_n.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>It was nippy this morning, low 40&#8217;s, but there was a fun crowd at Bridge Day! \u00a0We watched jumpers leap into nothingness (almost 900 feet high!) and glide with hang glider parachutes across the gorge and river to land on the beach. \u00a0Some splashed near the beach or drug their feet through that cold water as they landed. \u00a0My favorite was a little girl, maybe 10 years old, in a pink parka, who was visibly shaking on the edge of the bridge. \u00a0She held her little guide chute high and jumped off. \u00a0I couldn&#8217;t bear to watch. \u00a0Another older girl approached the edge five times before she leaped to the delighted cheers of the crowd. \u00a0Then there were confident spread eagle and back flipping adults. \u00a0Wow! \u00a0Dozens of vendors offered variety from deep fried peanut butter sandwiches to black &#8220;coal&#8221; candy to tie dyed ponchos. The air was festive on the bridge and had to be ecstatic under the bridge as jumpers landed successfully. \u00a0I suspect this happens only in West Virginia!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was nippy this morning, low 40&#8217;s, but there was a fun crowd at Bridge Day! \u00a0We watched jumpers leap into nothingness (almost 900 feet high!) and glide with hang glider parachutes across the gorge and river to land on the beach. \u00a0Some splashed near the beach or drug their feet through that cold water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}