{"id":2209,"date":"2009-11-19T06:34:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T11:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2013-06-15T00:07:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T05:07:10","slug":"what-if-your-balloon-soared-up-to-the-sky-and-got-stuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2209","title":{"rendered":"What if your balloon soared up to the sky&#8230;and got stuck?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/airport_balloon.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"349\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>I noticed this the other day at the Bismarck Airport and grabbed a quick photo with my cell phone. The ceiling in the airport was painted with a sky texture by Ric Sprynczynatyk when the new terminal was built, and seeing someone&#8217;s balloon stuck up against the ceiling reminded me of the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120382\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Truman Show<\/a>. It&#8217;s way up there, too&#8230;so either it will be allowed to drift down on its own as it deflates over time, or someone has to get a BB gun! I&#8217;d volunteer for that last one, but the TSA would have a heart attack unless I got permission first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed this the other day at the Bismarck Airport and grabbed a quick photo with my cell phone. The ceiling in the airport was painted with a sky texture by Ric Sprynczynatyk when the new terminal was built, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2209\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funnyunusual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions\/2210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}