{"id":30840,"date":"2010-04-20T19:41:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T02:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=30840"},"modified":"2010-04-20T19:41:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T02:41:24","slug":"german-skydiver-saved-in-daring-midair-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=30840","title":{"rendered":"German skydiver saved in daring midair rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A German skydiver who became injured and could not pull her own release cord is fortunate to have suffered only moderate injuries after a dramatic midair rescue 14,000 feet above ground.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Katharina Wagner, 24, a veteran who had made more than 1,000 jumps, was caught by a gust and slammed shoulder-first into the fuselage of the airplane she leaped from Sunday afternoon.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">She was unable to pull the deployment handle on her parachute and what happened next, one witness told England&#8217;s Telegraph newspaper, &#8220;was like something out of an action film.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/blog\/17117\/german+skydiver+saved+in+daring+midair+rescue\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A German skydiver who became injured and could not pull her own release cord is fortunate to have suffered only moderate injuries after a dramatic midair rescue 14,000 feet above ground.\u00c2\u00a0 Katharina Wagner, 24, a veteran who had made more than 1,000 jumps, was caught by a gust and slammed shoulder-first into the fuselage of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skydiving-base-jumping-hang-gliding-paragliding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30841,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30840\/revisions\/30841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}