{"id":3675,"date":"2010-10-13T06:05:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T14:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2010-10-13T06:05:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T14:05:21","slug":"balloon-fiesta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=3675","title":{"rendered":"Balloon Fiesta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went to the to the Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque for the &#8220;glowdeo&#8221; on Thursday night but it was canceled because of high wind.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/recommendations\/the-balloon-fiesta\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Click here to see some pictures from three years ago<\/strong><\/a> when I went with Gene B.\u00a0 The next day we shopped and sent postcards and went to dinner with our friends the Blachers.\u00a0 It looked like we weren&#8217;t going to see any balloons.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday morning I opened the curtains of our hotel room and there were about a hundred balloons drifting by.\u00a0 I took a few pictures:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"IMG_2130_2\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/5073121733\/img_2130_2.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4111\/5073121733_37acf49a58_m.jpg?resize=181%2C240\" alt=\"IMG_2130_2\" width=\"181\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A floating urn<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"IMG_2125_2\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/5073120955\/img_2125_2.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4089\/5073120955_c7b8911bd9_m.jpg?resize=170%2C240\" alt=\"IMG_2125_2\" width=\"170\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>An air cat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"IMG_2125\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/5073716646\/img_2125.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4092\/5073716646_e37cff4a69_m.jpg?resize=240%2C125\" alt=\"IMG_2125\" width=\"240\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Our first look<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It is a remarkable folk festival.\u00a0 Like the Rose Parade in the air or the running of the bulls in Pamplona.\u00a0 I&#8217;m looking forward to meeting some of the balloonist someday and trying to figure out why they chose this pursuit rather than cars or horses or hiking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to the to the Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque for the &#8220;glowdeo&#8221; on Thursday night but it was canceled because of high wind.\u00a0 Click here to see some pictures from three years ago when I went with Gene B.\u00a0 The next day we shopped and sent postcards and went to dinner with our friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sante-fe","tag-hobbies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-Xh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3694,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions\/3694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}