{"id":515536,"date":"2016-07-23T07:38:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T12:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=515536"},"modified":"2016-07-24T07:22:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T12:22:45","slug":"hot-air-balloon-come-to-longview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=515536","title":{"rendered":"Great Texas Balloon Race Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/07\/13700140_1203317343023240_4868202816197615650_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/07\/13700140_1203317343023240_4868202816197615650_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"13700140_1203317343023240_4868202816197615650_n\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-516194\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8211; Over 50 hot air balloons are in Longview this weekend at the Great Texas Balloon Race. The pilots are in competition through Sunday. Saturday afternoon, the festival gates open at 4:00 at the East Texas Regional Airport. Patrons will enter through the LeTourneau Hanger on Highway 349. There will be a carnival midway and a kids&#8217; zone, and, of course, the balloons. The special shape balloons will inflate at 8:15. At 8:50, it&#8217;s the popular and crowd-pleasing balloon glow. Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greattexasballoonrace.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.greattexasballoonrace.com<\/a> for more information.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Entertainment will follow the balloon glow. Saturday&#8217;s entertainment is the Darrin Morris Band and Aaron Watson. (photo courtesy of GTBR Facebook page)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8211; Over 50 hot air balloons are in Longview this weekend at the Great Texas Balloon Race. The pilots are in competition through Sunday. Saturday afternoon, the festival gates open at 4:00 at the East Texas Regional Airport. Patrons will enter through the LeTourneau Hanger on Highway 349. There will be a carnival midway &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=515536\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Great Texas Balloon Race Underway<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":516194,"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-515536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 12:34:48","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\/515536","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=515536"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516196,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515536\/revisions\/516196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/516194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}