{"id":70290,"date":"2012-09-25T20:25:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T03:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=70290"},"modified":"2012-09-25T20:25:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T03:25:20","slug":"skydiver-aims-for-supersonic-plunge-oct-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=70290","title":{"rendered":"Skydiver aims for supersonic plunge Oct. 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The countdown is on for skydiver Felix Baumgartner. In just two weeks, the Austrian parachutist will attempt to go supersonic when he jumps from a record altitude of 23 miles (37 kilometers) over the U.S.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Baumgartner expects to reach a top speed of 690 mph (1,110 kph) and break the sound barrier with only his body.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Project managers announced Tuesday the attempt will take place Oct. 8, a delay from August\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2012\/09\/25\/skydiver-aims-for-supersonic-plunge-oct-8-from-record-altitude-23-miles-over\/\" target=\"_blank\">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>The countdown is on for skydiver Felix Baumgartner. In just two weeks, the Austrian parachutist will attempt to go supersonic when he jumps from a record altitude of 23 miles (37 kilometers) over the U.S. Baumgartner expects to reach a top speed of 690 mph (1,110 kph) and break the sound barrier with only his [&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-70290","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\/70290","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=70290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70292,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70290\/revisions\/70292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}