{"id":257,"date":"2009-06-29T14:32:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T13:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fifescapes.wordpress.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2020-11-18T13:56:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T13:56:48","slug":"slingsby-grasshopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/06\/29\/slingsby-grasshopper\/","title":{"rendered":"Slingsby Grasshopper (29 Jun 2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"973\" height=\"644\" src=\"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/P6291287_0973.jpg\" alt=\"Slingsby Grasshopper\" class=\"wp-image-1929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/P6291287_0973.jpg 973w, https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/P6291287_0973-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/P6291287_0973-508x336.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 973px) 100vw, 973px\" \/><figcaption>Slingsby Grasshopper<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazingly people used to start learning to glide on one of these machines!&nbsp; They would do ground slides graduating to low hops, and then switch to something more obviously like a glider to progress.&nbsp; All flights on this were solo &#8211; the instructor stayed safely on the ground.&nbsp; \ud83d\ude2e<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sal-woo\/3711928967\/\">Flickr Photopage<\/a><\/p>\n<ul id=\"wp-image-\" class=\"exif\"><li class=\"shutter_speed\">Shutter speed:\u00a01\/250s<\/li><li class=\"aperture\">Aperture:\u00a0&#402;\/4.6<\/li><li class=\"iso\">ISO:\u00a0100<\/li><li class=\"focal_length\">Focal length:\u00a070mm<\/li><li class=\"created_timestamp\">Taken:\u00a029 June, 2009 13:06<\/li><li class=\"camera\">Camera:\u00a0E-510<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazingly people used to start learning to glide on one of these machines!&nbsp; They would do ground slides graduating to low hops, and then switch to something more obviously like a glider to progress.&nbsp; All flights on this were solo &#8211; the instructor stayed safely on the ground.&nbsp; \ud83d\ude2e Flickr Photopage Shutter speed:\u00a01\/250s Aperture:\u00a0&#402;\/4.6 ISO:\u00a0100&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[263,176,43,44,252,23],"tags":[7,62,24],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-40-0-150-0mm-f-4-0-5-6","category-aviation","category-colour","category-digital-type","category-olympus-e-510","category-scotland","tag-gliding","tag-portmoak","tag-slingsby-grasshopper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}