{"id":270139,"date":"2013-07-25T11:09:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T16:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=270139"},"modified":"2013-07-26T13:19:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T18:19:16","slug":"balloon-race-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=270139","title":{"rendered":"Balloon Race Back on Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=270140\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-270140\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/07\/balloonsmgn-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"balloonsmgn\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-270140\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2014 The balloonists participating in the U.S. National Hot Air Balloon Championship finally get a chance to take flight. KETK reports Tuesday and Wednesday\u2019s races were canceled due to poor weather conditions, but Thursday\u2019s weather was deemed safe for flying. Pilots launched near the old Foster school, with the option of four target sites: Maude Cobb, two at Lear Park, and the fourth at Pine Tree Intermediate School. You can go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greattexasballoonrace.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.greattexasballoonrace.com\/<\/a> for more information. In 2013, Gregg County was proclaimed \u201cThe Balloon Race Capital of Texas\u201d by the 83rd Texas Legislature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2014 The balloonists participating in the U.S. National Hot Air Balloon Championship finally get a chance to take flight. KETK reports Tuesday and Wednesday\u2019s races were canceled due to poor weather conditions, but Thursday\u2019s weather was deemed safe for flying. Pilots launched near the old Foster school, with the option of four target sites: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=270139\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Balloon Race Back on Track<\/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-270139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 22:31:18","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\/270139","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=270139"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270570,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270139\/revisions\/270570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}