{"id":319,"date":"2010-10-07T22:35:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T04:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/?p=319"},"modified":"2019-02-12T19:15:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:15:23","slug":"jump-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/jump-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Jump tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And it&#8217;s on a brand new dropzone. The third in as many months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ParatrooperJumpCargoC-130.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-320 alignright\" title=\"Ramp Jump. This guy's screwing up his exit.\" src=\"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ParatrooperJumpCargoC-130-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Ramp Jump. This guy's screwing up his exit.\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No one in our unit has ever jumped it. I sure hope I can figure out where we are before leading the way out of the plane.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edit:<\/strong> Well, we lived and it was one of the nicest jumps I&#8217;ve done.<\/p>\n<p>Soft opening. Sherpas or C-23s usually are since they&#8217;re so slow.<\/p>\n<p>Soft landing. Farmer&#8217;s field with dirt like talcum powder combined with very low winds.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty. The landscape in Western Eagle Mountain Valley actually looks more like the pic on the right than I expected. Put more mountains on the horizon and you&#8217;ve pretty much got it. Considering the pic on the right is actually over Germany that&#8217;s saying something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it&#8217;s on a brand new dropzone. The third in as many months. No one in our unit has ever jumped it. I sure hope I can figure out where we are before leading the way out of the plane. Edit: Well, we lived and it was one of the nicest jumps I&#8217;ve done. Soft &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/jump-tomorrow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jump tomorrow<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,17,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hubris","category-national-guard","category-soldiering","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}