{"id":146,"date":"2008-08-22T15:57:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T19:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/threetotwo.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2013-08-07T09:41:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T13:41:50","slug":"hot-air-in-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julianrussellphotography.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/22\/hot-air-in-denver\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Air in Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rocky Mountain Balloon Festival started this morning. Dawn found dozens of hot air balloons strewn across the grass at Catchfield State Park just outside of Denver. I had awoken at the hitherto unknown hour of 4am to make the trek there and take some photos.<\/p>\n<p>No soon than I arrived I met the very affable Scott Spencer who along with his wife Laurie have, perhaps, the coolest job in the world: hot air balloon pilots.<\/p>\n<p>The Spencer were incredibly gracious, letting me take frames inside the balloon and in the basket. Scott also loaned me his 10mm fish-eye lens. I was starting to think he was pretty alright when the\u00a0 pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance came. Scott caught my eye and said &#8220;You want to go up&#8221;? Silly question!<\/p>\n<p>Though just a tethered up and down it was fantastic&#8230;peacefully floating on air with the occasional burst of the burners for excitement.<\/p>\n<p>The DNC starts in 3 days and the protests and meetings start tomorrow. As exciting as all that will be I would trade it and a lot more for a long hot air balloon ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rocky Mountain Balloon Festival started this morning. Dawn found dozens of hot air balloons strewn across the grass at Catchfield State Park just outside of Denver. I had awoken at the hitherto unknown hour of 4am to make the trek there and take some photos. No soon than I arrived I met the very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[91,128,245,659,754,429],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-co","tag-denver","tag-hot-air-balloon","tag-morning","tag-pilot","tag-rocky-mountain-balloon-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianrussellphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianrussellphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianrussellphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianrussellphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianrussellphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/julianrussellphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianrussellphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianrussellphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianrussellphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianrussellphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}