{"id":61606,"date":"2012-03-11T11:29:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T18:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=61606"},"modified":"2012-03-11T11:29:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T18:29:14","slug":"parachutist-flies-over-the-alps-in-a-wing-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=61606","title":{"rendered":"Parachutist flies over the Alps in a wing-suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the real-life birdman! Parachutist flies over the Alps in a wing-suit in \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcworld first\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hurtling over peaks at 500 km an hour (310 miles an hour), a Swiss man flew over the Alps in a wing-suit yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">His team said it was the first time the mountain range had been crossed in such a free fall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Parachutist Remo Laeng, 36, jumped from a plane 7,500 metres (24,600ft) up, near the Swiss ski resort of Verbier and sped south over the Alps\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-2113367\/It-s-real-life-birdman-Parachutist-flies-Alps-wing-suit-world-first.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and more<\/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>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the real-life birdman! Parachutist flies over the Alps in a wing-suit in \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcworld first\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Hurtling over peaks at 500 km an hour (310 miles an hour), a Swiss man flew over the Alps in a wing-suit yesterday. His team said it was the first time the mountain range had been crossed in such a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61606","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\/61606","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=61606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61608,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61606\/revisions\/61608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}