{"id":306577,"date":"2014-07-06T05:27:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T10:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=306577"},"modified":"2014-07-07T12:05:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T17:05:55","slug":"woman-celebrates-85th-birthday-skydiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=306577","title":{"rendered":"Woman Celebrates 85th Birthday Skydiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/07\/Sue-DeCostanza.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/07\/Sue-DeCostanza-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Sue DeCostanza\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-306578\" \/><\/a>GLADEWATER \u2013 A Gregg County woman has celebrated her 85th birthday by skydiving. Sue DeCostanza made the jump on Saturday. Her trainers at Skydive East Texas told KETK she handled the flight like a pro. Bryan Baggett, the tandem videographer, said, &#8220;Right before we were ready to go, I said, &#8216;How you feel you ready to go?&#8217;, &#8216;Yea!&#8217;, &#8216;You nervous?&#8217;, &#8216;No&#8217;, and she really didn&#8217;t look it. I mean calmer than most she did not look nervous at all&#8221;. Would she do it again? Sue says, \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GLADEWATER \u2013 A Gregg County woman has celebrated her 85th birthday by skydiving. Sue DeCostanza made the jump on Saturday. Her trainers at Skydive East Texas told KETK she handled the flight like a pro. Bryan Baggett, the tandem videographer, said, &#8220;Right before we were ready to go, I said, &#8216;How you feel you ready &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=306577\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Woman Celebrates 85th Birthday Skydiving<\/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-306577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 11:13:09","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\/306577","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=306577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306579,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306577\/revisions\/306579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}