{"id":66280,"date":"2012-07-04T08:38:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T15:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=66280"},"modified":"2012-07-04T08:54:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T15:54:57","slug":"base-jumpers-120-metre-death-plunge-after-parachute-fails-to-open-but-survives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=66280","title":{"rendered":"Base jumper&#8217;s 120-metre &#8216;death&#8217; plunge after parachute fails to open&#8230; but SURVIVES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">His bare hands shaking in nervous anticipation, a young base jumper prepares to throw himself from the top of a 120-metre power pylon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As the hapless daredevil shuffles tentatively towards the edge of the platform, the anxiety on his face is clear, even in this grainy handheld footage, filmed by a friend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But little does he know that his fears are about to come true as he finally plucks up the courage to make the leap into the snowy abyss\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2168722\/Icing-death-The-worlds-luckiest-base-jumper-sur-parachute-failed-open.html\" target=\"_blank\">Video, 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>His bare hands shaking in nervous anticipation, a young base jumper prepares to throw himself from the top of a 120-metre power pylon. As the hapless daredevil shuffles tentatively towards the edge of the platform, the anxiety on his face is clear, even in this grainy handheld footage, filmed by a friend. But little does [&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-66280","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\/66280","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=66280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66284,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66280\/revisions\/66284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}