{"id":92682,"date":"2019-08-04T01:59:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T01:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/annual-balloon-rally-takes-to-skies-over-cortez\/"},"modified":"2019-08-04T01:59:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T01:59:24","slug":"annual-balloon-rally-takes-to-skies-over-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/annual-balloon-rally-takes-to-skies-over-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual balloon rally takes to skies over Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:be5672cd-1100-470f-adc6-b819ce1aa01c --><\/p>\n<p>Rainbow globes dotted the city skies this weekend for the 17th annual Cortez Rendezvous Hot Air Balloon Rally.<\/p>\n<p>The rally at Parque de Vida attracts pilots and balloons from across the Four Corners area. Balloons are set up and take off from the park about 6:30 a.m. from Friday through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Local community members were given rides.<\/p>\n<p>After take-off, chase teams followed the balloons in vehicles to recover them after they landed.<\/p>\n<p>The annual balloon glow was scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:ealvero@the-journal.com\">ealvero@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>morning launches fill skies on weekend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5738,5740,5737,5736,5735,5741],"tags":[21,13,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-92682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cortez","category-frontpage-lead","category-headlines","category-local-news","category-news","category-newsletter","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92682"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=92682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}