{"id":364,"date":"2010-08-30T04:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joeclarksblog.wordpress.com\/?p=364"},"modified":"2018-06-27T21:52:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T01:52:01","slug":"why-i-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"Why I\u00a0Fly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I fly?&nbsp; Sometimes, something like that is hard to explain, especially to those who do not fly.&nbsp; They say a photograph is worth&nbsp;a thousand&nbsp;words; if that is so, a video is probably worth somewhere upwards of 500,000 paragraphs.&nbsp; This video may help explain why some of us are completely and totally and irrevocably enamored with flight.&nbsp; Turn on the speakers and maximize to full screen for best effect.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Airventure 2010 - World&#039;s Greatest Airshow\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CgM2W2vxsbw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n(Found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CgM2W2vxsbw\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CgM2W2vxsbw<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I fly?&nbsp; Sometimes, something like that is hard to explain, especially to those who do not fly.&nbsp; They say a photograph is worth&nbsp;a thousand&nbsp;words; if that is so, a video is probably worth somewhere upwards of 500,000 paragraphs.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/?p=364\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,9],"tags":[333,615,824,848,989,1294,1365,1422,1482,1500,1517,1853,1906,1917,1962,1965,2002,2136,2185,2203,2348,2505,2554,2660,2718,2753,2779,2795,2806,2858,2897,3118,3470,3579,4247,4366],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-flying-2","category-life-in-general","category-personal","tag-airport-bums","tag-barnstormers","tag-cessna-182","tag-charles-lindbergh","tag-control-over-my-life","tag-enthusiasm","tag-favorite-students","tag-first-solo","tag-flying-checks","tag-flying-machines","tag-flying-single-engine-at-night","tag-homebuilders","tag-i-knew-i-could-do-it","tag-ifr-clearance","tag-instrument-flying","tag-instrument-pilots","tag-it-was-time","tag-late-afternoon-florida-skies","tag-life-lessons","tag-little-country-fbo","tag-mechanics","tag-navy","tag-night-flight","tag-open-cockpit-biplanes","tag-parachute","tag-perfecting-landings","tag-picking-a-good-place-to-land","tag-pilots","tag-piper-j-3","tag-predicaments","tag-professional-pilots","tag-safe-landing","tag-tampa-international","tag-the-barnstorming-era","tag-what-was-there-to-be-afraid-of","tag-youre-on-your-own"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5748,"href":"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/5748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}