{"id":283,"date":"2012-01-31T06:09:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T06:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2018-10-01T08:49:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T22:49:12","slug":"2012-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"2012 Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a couple of years I&#8217;ve had a small copy of this painting on my wall.\u00a0 It reminds me of one of the photo challenges for January:\u00a0 Launch.\u00a0 On this last day of January, I want to show it to you.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a blogging analogy.\u00a0 On 1st January I started this blog, lifting off in colourful company.\u00a0 Some float with me, some observe from solid ground.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1714\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1714\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/montgolfic3a8re.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1714 \" title=\"montgolfi\u00e8re\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/montgolfic3a8re.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/montgolfic3a8re.png 535w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/montgolfic3a8re-248x300.png 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ren\u00e9 Jean Le Moine, &#8216;Chateau de la Muette&#8217;, 1783<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The hot air balloon launched at the Chateau de la Muette was the first untethered manned flight.\u00a0 It was invented by the Montgolfier brothers;\u00a0 thus, in French, it&#8217;s called a montgolfi\u00e8re.\u00a0 The painting above is part of the National Library collection here in Canberra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a couple of years I&#8217;ve had a small copy of this painting on my wall.\u00a0 It reminds me of one of the photo challenges for January:\u00a0 Launch.\u00a0 On this last day of January, I want to show it to you.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a blogging analogy.\u00a0 On 1st January I started this blog, lifting off in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=283\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2012 Launched&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[26,44,45,46,21,22],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-not-wwii","tag-art","tag-french-art","tag-hot-air-balloon","tag-montgolfiere","tag-postaday","tag-postaday2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11601,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/11601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}