{"id":871,"date":"2010-08-01T12:14:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T17:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/?p=871"},"modified":"2010-08-01T12:14:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T17:14:47","slug":"skydiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/2010\/08\/01\/skydiving","title":{"rendered":"Skydiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jumped out of a perfectly good airplane this morning. My instructor, Leonard, was also a former aero engineering student, so we had a nice relaxing technical talk about the safety systems and the aircraft capabilities on the way up. Before we slid out the door he said: “whatever happens, I’m coming down with you.” True to his word, we landed safely. Checked another item one off the lifelong to-do list.<\/p>\n

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\"Assume<\/a><\/p>\n

Assume the position<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Going<\/a><\/p>\n

Going up<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Looking<\/a><\/p>\n

Looking out<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Heading<\/a><\/p>\n

Heading down<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Shocking<\/a><\/p>\n

Shocking Freefall<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

A little bit of drool<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Steering<\/a><\/p>\n

Steering the chute<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Still<\/a><\/p>\n

Still psyched<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jumped out of a perfectly good airplane this morning. My instructor, Leonard, was also a former aero engineering student, so we had a nice relaxing technical talk about the safety systems and the aircraft capabilities on the way up. Before we slid out the door he said: “whatever happens, I’m coming down with you.” True […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cross-country"],"geo":{"latitude":35.9474792,"longitude":-114.8610916,"description":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}