{"id":30989,"date":"2010-04-22T19:53:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T02:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=30989"},"modified":"2010-04-22T20:46:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T03:46:01","slug":"skyjump-las-vegas-855-foot-controlled-free-fall-at-40mph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=30989","title":{"rendered":"SkyJump Las Vegas: 855-foot &#8216;controlled free-fall&#8217; at 40mph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you&#8217;ve ever been to Las Vegas you&#8217;ll probably be familiar with Stratosphere, the 1,149-foot-tall hotel and casino that towers above the famous Strip. If you&#8217;re the adventurous type, you&#8217;d also know there&#8217;s some fun to be had at the top in the form of three hair-raising amusement rides. Now there&#8217;s a fourth. Claiming the title of the world&#8217;s highest commercial decelerated descent, the SkyJump takes thrill-seekers on an 855-foot &#8220;controlled free-fall&#8221; at 40mph &#8211; think base jumping, but with a safety wire\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/sky-jump-las-vegas\/14869\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever been to Las Vegas you&#8217;ll probably be familiar with Stratosphere, the 1,149-foot-tall hotel and casino that towers above the famous Strip. If you&#8217;re the adventurous type, you&#8217;d also know there&#8217;s some fun to be had at the top in the form of three hair-raising amusement rides. Now there&#8217;s a fourth. Claiming the [&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-30989","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\/30989","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=30989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31024,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30989\/revisions\/31024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}