{"id":61830,"date":"2012-03-16T06:59:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T13:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=61830"},"modified":"2012-03-16T07:38:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T14:38:09","slug":"skydiver-leaps-13-miles-from-the-edge-of-space-at-354mph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=61830","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Skydiver leaps 13 miles from the edge of space at 354mph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Skydiving daredevil Felix Baumgartner is more than halfway toward his goal of setting a world record for the highest jump.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He&#8217;s aiming for nearly 23 miles this summer. The record is 19.5 miles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mr Baumgartner lifted off Thursday for a test jump from Roswell, New Mexico, aboard a 100-foot helium balloon. He rode inside a pressurized capsule to 71,581 feet &#8211; 13.6 miles &#8211; and then jumped\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2115704\/Felix-Baumgartner-space-jump-2012-Austrian-daredevil-taking-skydiving-new-heights.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZkF2dq1bJi0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZkF2dq1bJi0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skydiving daredevil Felix Baumgartner is more than halfway toward his goal of setting a world record for the highest jump. He&#8217;s aiming for nearly 23 miles this summer. The record is 19.5 miles. Mr Baumgartner lifted off Thursday for a test jump from Roswell, New Mexico, aboard a 100-foot helium balloon. He rode inside 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":[55,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skydiving-base-jumping-hang-gliding-paragliding","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61830","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=61830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61832,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61830\/revisions\/61832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}