{"id":95799,"date":"2019-02-01T18:06:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T01:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/photos-hot-air-balloons-to-take-flight-this-weekend\/"},"modified":"2019-02-01T18:06:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T01:06:45","slug":"photos-hot-air-balloons-to-take-flight-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/photos-hot-air-balloons-to-take-flight-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Hot air balloons to take flight this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><element id=\"preamble-0\" type=\"preamble\"\/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d47ef58b-c9d2-4a7e-b0d9-b9eb64c918df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d47ef58b-c9d2-4a7e-b0d9-b9eb64c918df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d47ef58b-c9d2-4a7e-b0d9-b9eb64c918df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d47ef58b-c9d2-4a7e-b0d9-b9eb64c918df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" alt=\"Rick Schmidt of Mancos prepares his hot air balloon, Snaggletooth, for liftoff Friday in the Animas Valley. Schmidt has been piloting hot air balloons for more than 20 years and worked as a ground crew member before becoming a pilot. The Snowdown Balloon Rally &amp; Mass Ascension will take place at 8 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, weather permitting.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Rick Schmidt of Mancos prepares his hot air balloon, Snaggletooth, for liftoff Friday in the Animas Valley. Schmidt has been piloting hot air balloons for more than 20 years and worked as a ground crew member before becoming a pilot. The Snowdown Balloon Rally &amp; Mass Ascension will take place at 8 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, weather permitting.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Claudia Laws\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schmidt of Mancos prepares his hot air balloon, Snaggletooth, for liftoff Friday in the Animas Valley. Schmidt has been piloting hot air balloons for more than 20 years and worked as a ground crew member before becoming a pilot. The Snowdown Balloon Rally &amp; Mass Ascension will take place at 8 a.m. Saturday and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5769,5736,5735],"tags":[1920],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-95799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gallery","category-local-news","category-news","tag-animas-valley"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95799","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=95799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95799"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=95799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}