{"id":86630,"date":"2013-11-11T08:20:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T15:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=86630"},"modified":"2013-11-11T08:20:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T15:20:39","slug":"wingsuit-jumper-espen-fadnes-in-search-of-the-perfect-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=86630","title":{"rendered":"Wingsuit jumper Espen Fadnes: in search of the perfect flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Espen Fadnes can fly through the air like Icarus &#8211; but a recent close call\u00a0\u00a0 with a cable car suggests he might be getting too close to the sun<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The desire to conquer the skies has obsessed humanity ever since Icarus soared\u00a0\u00a0 towards the sun.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>Now a few brave souls are turning man&#8217;s dream of flight into a reality by\u00a0\u00a0 attaching wings to their bodies and gliding through the air.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>Espen Fadnes is\u00a0\u00a0 one of these \u2013 an elite member of a small group of adrenalin sports junkies\u00a0\u00a0 who take part in a type of base jumping known as wingsuit jumping\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/men\/active\/10438627\/Wingsuit-jumper-Espen-Fadnes-in-search-of-the-perfect-flight.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Espen Fadnes can fly through the air like Icarus &#8211; but a recent close call\u00a0\u00a0 with a cable car suggests he might be getting too close to the sun The desire to conquer the skies has obsessed humanity ever since Icarus soared\u00a0\u00a0 towards the sun. Now a few brave souls are turning man&#8217;s dream of [&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-86630","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\/86630","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=86630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86631,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86630\/revisions\/86631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}