{"id":1014,"date":"2013-03-07T20:35:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T20:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2013-03-07T20:35:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T20:35:20","slug":"ballooning-to-near-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1014","title":{"rendered":"Ballooning to Near Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard David writes about the growing interest and activity in high altitude ballooning: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/20089-near-space-balloons-science.html\" target=\"_d\">Balloon Flights Bring Near-Space Exploration to Masses &#8211; Space.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard David writes about the growing interest and activity in high altitude ballooning: Balloon Flights Bring Near-Space Exploration to Masses &#8211; Space.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-near-space"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-gm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":714,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=714","url_meta":{"origin":1014,"position":0},"title":"High altitude balloon kits and tutorials","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"High altitude balloon projects have become increasingly popular with students and hobbyists in the past few years. 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