{"id":75925,"date":"2013-02-26T21:05:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T04:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=75925"},"modified":"2013-02-26T21:05:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T04:05:18","slug":"twin-falls-idaho-caters-to-daredevil-base-jumpers-from-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=75925","title":{"rendered":"Twin Falls, Idaho, caters to daredevil BASE jumpers from around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Watching people hurl themselves safely off a bridge all in the name of sport isn&#8217;t something you can do every day&#8211;mostly because BASE jumping, where daredevils parachute off buildings, bridges, and natural landmarks, is illegal almost everywhere in the world. But there&#8217;s one spot where you can witness this kind of intrepid behavior every day: Twin Falls, Idaho. Each year a few thousand BASE jumpers descend upon this quaint agricultural town to legally parachute off the 486-foot Perrine Bridge. And with the weather slowly starting to warm up now, the high season for Twin Falls is rapidly approaching, so if you have any interest in watching&#8211;or trying&#8211;a BASE jump, book your tickets soon. Check out my gallery of my recent visit to Twin Falls that included\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/blog\/51161\/twin+falls+idaho+caters+to+daredevil+base+jumpers+from+around+the+world\/\" 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>Watching people hurl themselves safely off a bridge all in the name of sport isn&#8217;t something you can do every day&#8211;mostly because BASE jumping, where daredevils parachute off buildings, bridges, and natural landmarks, is illegal almost everywhere in the world. But there&#8217;s one spot where you can witness this kind of intrepid behavior every day: [&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-75925","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\/75925","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=75925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75926,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75925\/revisions\/75926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}