{"id":376664,"date":"2015-07-22T18:17:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T23:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=376664"},"modified":"2015-07-23T17:15:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T22:15:12","slug":"balloonist-injured-in-hard-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=376664","title":{"rendered":"Balloonist Injured in Hard Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/07\/Dale-Wong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/07\/Dale-Wong-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Dale Wong\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-376665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/07\/Dale-Wong-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/07\/Dale-Wong.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8212; A hot-Air balloon pilot participating in the U.S. Nationals Balloon Championships in Longview, has been injured in what was called a &#8220;hard landing.&#8221; Taken to Good Shepherd Medical Center with lower-extremity impact injuries, was Dale Wong, 59, of Rancho Cucamonga, California. His hot air balloon, which is named &#8220;Ursa Minor,&#8221; landed hard in a pasture near Adrian and Sam Page roads around 9:00 Wednesday morning. Pilots in the championship flew their first competitive flight Wednesday morning. Winds had kept the pilots on the ground Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; A hot-Air balloon pilot participating in the U.S. Nationals Balloon Championships in Longview, has been injured in what was called a &#8220;hard landing.&#8221; Taken to Good Shepherd Medical Center with lower-extremity impact injuries, was Dale Wong, 59, of Rancho Cucamonga, California. His hot air balloon, which is named &#8220;Ursa Minor,&#8221; landed hard in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=376664\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Balloonist Injured in Hard Landing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":376665,"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-376664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 16:37:09","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\/376664","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=376664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376666,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376664\/revisions\/376666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/376665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}