{"id":103,"date":"2008-06-07T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2016-05-11T15:35:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T19:35:53","slug":"hangin-in-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Hangin&#8217; in the Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/SEsawSd9XaI\/AAAAAAAAARQ\/vhTqjOMvvbg\/s1600-h\/Divinhome.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 179px; height: 269px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/SEsawSd9XaI\/AAAAAAAAARQ\/vhTqjOMvvbg\/s320\/Divinhome.jpg?w=584\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209286810877648290\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">I went skydiving with friends today on Maryland&#8217;s Eastern Shore.  The photo shown here is of me taken years ago.  Unfortunately, today in my haste to get out of the house to ride over to meet my buddies, I forgot my camera!  I&#8217;m waiting for a bud to send me some of the pics that he took.<\/p>\n<p>I used to go skydiving almost every weekend from May &#8211; October for years.  As I have aged, and have a partner who can&#8217;t enjoy this sport, I don&#8217;t go skydiving as often.  It&#8217;s a young man&#8217;s activity.  Also, it&#8217;s just darned expensive.  Fuel for airplanes is more expensive than fuel for cars.<\/p>\n<p>It was so hot today &#8212; about 95\u00b0F (35\u00b0C) &#8212; that the heat rising from the land was rising faster than my rate of descent after I deployed my &#8216;chute to its full extension, so I rose in altitude for a while, and just &#8220;hung around&#8221; enjoying the view (what I could see of it through the haze).  When I was over my DZ (drop zone), I pulled in the flaps, and slowly drifted down.  I landed right on the spot I intended, each and every time.<\/p>\n<p>I had an enjoyable day, hangin&#8217; out in the cloudless sky.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went skydiving with friends today on Maryland&#8217;s Eastern Shore. The photo shown here is of me taken years ago. Unfortunately, today in my haste to get out of the house to ride over to meet my buddies, I forgot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=103\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}