{"id":24352,"date":"2010-07-31T07:53:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T12:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=24352"},"modified":"2010-08-02T16:24:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T21:24:36","slug":"the-great-texas-balloon-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=24352","title":{"rendered":"Great Texas Balloon Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/07\/balloons-race2-200x106.jpg\" alt=\"Balloons\" title=\"Balloons\" width=\"200\" height=\"106\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-24472\" \/>LONGVIEW &#8212; Visitors from far and wide spent much of the weekend enjoying the Great Texas Balloon Race at Gregg County\u2019s East Texas Regional Airport.  Balloon flights began on Friday morning with a flight over the City of Longview.   The various other activities included the popular balloon glows, which entertained crowds Friday and Saturday night.  Organizers call the balloon race a world class event attracting the very best competitive pilots from across the United States and the world.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; Visitors from far and wide spent much of the weekend enjoying the Great Texas Balloon Race at Gregg County\u2019s East Texas Regional Airport. Balloon flights began on Friday morning with a flight over the City of Longview. The various other activities included the popular balloon glows, which entertained crowds Friday and Saturday night. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=24352\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Great Texas Balloon Race<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 15:58:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24352"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24837,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24352\/revisions\/24837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}