{"id":2448327,"date":"2019-09-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=312305"},"modified":"2019-09-04T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T14:00:00","slug":"enjoying-a-birds-eye-view-of-smass-in-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/enjoying-a-birds-eye-view-of-smass-in-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoying a bird\u2019s eye view of S\u2019mass in 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/history-svs-090419.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/history-svs-090419.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/history-svs-090419-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>One color slide of the Hot Air Balloon Race\/Festival in Snowmass, July 1988. There are 19 balloons pictured.<\/strong><br \/><em>Aspen Historical Society\/Provided<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">\u201cIn an age when practically everything we do has a purpose, ballooning stands alone. Ballooning is different for the simple reason that pilots have little control over their craft,\u201d perceptively described The Aspen Times article in summer of 1988. \u201cIn fact, they are at the mercy of the elements and even the most experienced can be blown off course. Aspen Balloonist Fred Gorrell says about his sport, \u2018We don\u2019t always know where we are going to end up.\u2019 \u2026 The most appealing aspect of the sport is that once the balloon is high about the ground, not much happens. \u2026 Enjoying a bird\u2019s eye view of the Snowmass Valley at last weekend\u2019s Snowmass Balloon Festival and watching 50 wildly colored balloons floating above the golf course and Rodeo Grounds may not be an action-packed adventure, but it sure was enjoyable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/snowmass\/enjoying-a-birds-eye-view-of-smass-in-1988\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One color slide of the Hot Air Balloon Race\/Festival in Snowmass, July 1988. There are 19 balloons pictured.Aspen Historical Society\/Provided \u201cIn an age when practically everything we do has a purpose, ballooning stands alone. Ballooning is different for the simple reason that pilots have little control over their craft,\u201d perceptively described The Aspen Times article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 05:09:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}