{"id":67072,"date":"2012-07-23T14:09:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T21:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=67072"},"modified":"2012-07-23T14:09:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T21:09:04","slug":"base-jumping-what%e2%80%99s-chinese-for-geronimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=67072","title":{"rendered":"Base Jumping &#8211; What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chinese for Geronimo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Just gazing over the precipice of a 375m high bridge would be enough to turn most people into quivering wrecks, but in the crazy world of base jumping such a structure is merely another challenge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some of the best jumpers from around the globe descended on the city of Anshun in southwest China&#8217;s Guizhou Province at the weekend to participate in the China Bridge Parachuting International Challenge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With a length of 2,237 metres, the Balinghe suspension bridge, which croses the Baling River Valley, is the world&#8217;s highest suspension bridge\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2177764\/What-s-Chinese-Geronimo-Base-jumpers-come-world-leap-China-s-highest-bridge.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>Just gazing over the precipice of a 375m high bridge would be enough to turn most people into quivering wrecks, but in the crazy world of base jumping such a structure is merely another challenge. Some of the best jumpers from around the globe descended on the city of Anshun in southwest China&#8217;s Guizhou Province [&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-67072","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\/67072","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=67072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67073,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67072\/revisions\/67073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}