{"id":187,"date":"2004-09-12T20:09:56","date_gmt":"2004-09-12T20:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=187"},"modified":"2013-03-07T18:05:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:05:33","slug":"kites_and_power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/kites_and_power\/","title":{"rendered":"Kites and Powerball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recovering from the Best Potluck Party of 2004, I spent my Saturday with two friends flying kites (a kite boarding trainer and a regular two-line control one) and competing for the top score in <a href=\"http:\/\/powerballs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Powerball<\/a>:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Two guys prepare a kite\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/09\/img_7405.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><br \/>\nPreparing the Kite Board trainer after fixing one of its many string snaps, a consequence of bad knots, beginner control and the strong Clover Point winds.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Two guys fly a kite\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/09\/img_7413_r1.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"540\" \/><br \/>\nLaunched.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A man flies a kite\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/09\/img_7403.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><br \/>\nWe practiced control of the kite, leaning and sliding on the grass and basically trying to keep the kite from either dying or pulling us onto the road.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A man losses control of a kite\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/09\/img_7425_r1.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><br \/>\nHector demonstrates loosing control.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Jeff flies a kite\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/09\/img_7430_r1.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"540\" \/><br \/>\nIn between applying grass stains, I fly the regular kite.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A man concentrates of spinning a Powerball\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/09\/img_7432.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><br \/>\nHector on his way to the Powerball 10,000 club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recovering from the Best Potluck Party of 2004, I spent my Saturday with two friends flying kites (a kite boarding trainer and a regular two-line control one) and competing for the top score in Powerball: Preparing the Kite Board trainer after fixing one of its many string snaps, a consequence of bad knots, beginner control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}