{"id":346849,"date":"2025-12-16T12:33:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/art\/how-i-learned-to-fly\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:33:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:33:42","slug":"how-i-learned-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=346849","title":{"rendered":"How I Learned to Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: left\">I was obsessed with flying machines in my younger years.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiZo2XLEtXJj0TNsz1NM6l9iZcO7gh4zZnecNPdvmEA9cLKzZMgeijKL5XFIVrHSrGSVU29rYQ-jlathPMhTrS_Fhj-gEUj7QvfIvEuuLgjXRleIkVim6DsGMdp-qHcz6blbWm626H7nv4_BpSbkwM09_6ZllxX-LiJGl5zoGMgVohqY22ho7DhX41bhG11\/s3493\/Hobie.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"3493\" data-original-width=\"2986\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiZo2XLEtXJj0TNsz1NM6l9iZcO7gh4zZnecNPdvmEA9cLKzZMgeijKL5XFIVrHSrGSVU29rYQ-jlathPMhTrS_Fhj-gEUj7QvfIvEuuLgjXRleIkVim6DsGMdp-qHcz6blbWm626H7nv4_BpSbkwM09_6ZllxX-LiJGl5zoGMgVohqY22ho7DhX41bhG11\/w548-h640\/Hobie.JPG\" width=\"548\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Before I graduated high school I had built and flown: radio-controlled gliders, hot air balloons, a variety of paper gliders, rubber-band powered balsa models, a welded steel glider that \u201cflew\u201d underwater, model rockets, hot air ballooons, rising parachutes, and various kites and kite-string-climbers.<\/p>\n<div>&#8212;<\/div>\n<div>More at my <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesgurney.substack.com\/p\/flying-in-dinotopia\">Substack post.<\/a><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was obsessed with flying machines in my younger years.&nbsp; Before I graduated high school I had built and flown: radio-controlled gliders, hot air balloons, a variety of paper gliders, rubber-band powered balsa models, a welded steel glider that \u201cflew\u201d underwater, model rockets, hot air ballooons, rising parachutes, and various kites and kite-string-climbers. &#8212; More [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[280,11254],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-346849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-fly","tag-learned"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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