{"id":195,"date":"2012-05-14T03:10:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T03:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/?p=195"},"modified":"2012-05-21T23:34:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T23:34:57","slug":"goodbye-to-skydiving-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/2012\/05\/goodbye-to-skydiving-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye to skydiving &#8230; for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The category \u201cheavy things I want to carry around the world\u201d includes:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>My rucksack: clothes, boots, medical kit, laptop, clean linen handkerchiefs etc.<\/li>\n<li>My parachute<\/li>\n<li>Er, that\u2019s it<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Unless we come across a particularly fine drop zone that is (i) somewhere utterly spectacular, (ii) happy to lend me a 170 sq. ft. piece of ripstop nylon and (iii) accept a scanned copy of my log book, I probably won\u2019t be jumping over the next eight months. Sniff.<\/p>\n<p>I am desperately going to miss the camaraderie, the speed, the views, the sunshine, the hanging off the outside of planes, the playing with hi-tech kit, the exercise and the drop zone food (OK, maybe not the food). Fortunately, before we headed off Mirko had the sense to have the world\u2019s best bachelor party down at the drop zone at Cross Keys.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V0tWxsP5KuI?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=1&amp;theme=dark\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Guys, I\u2019m going to miss you. See you when we get back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The category \u201cheavy things I want to carry around the world\u201d includes: My rucksack: clothes, boots, medical kit, laptop, clean linen handkerchiefs etc. My parachute Er, that\u2019s it Unless we come across a particularly fine drop zone that is (i) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/2012\/05\/goodbye-to-skydiving-for-now\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}