{"id":567,"date":"2009-03-05T13:49:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T21:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/?p=567"},"modified":"2009-03-05T13:49:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T21:49:21","slug":"the-great-park-balloon-grounded-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/the-great-park-balloon-grounded-today\/","title":{"rendered":"the Great Park Balloon &#8211; grounded today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-568\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_4030.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-568\" title=\"img_4030\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_4030-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"img_4030\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_4030-300x200.jpg 300w, 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