{"id":172,"date":"2009-10-15T15:24:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T19:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/10\/15\/boy-in-a-balloon\/"},"modified":"2009-10-15T15:24:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T19:24:57","slug":"boy-in-a-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/10\/15\/boy-in-a-balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy in a Balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh will there be <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20091015\/ap_on_re_us\/us_boy_in_balloon\" target=\"_blank\">some \u2018splainin\u2019 to do<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commonwealthcommonsense.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83420265153ef0120a640702a970c-pi\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"boy in balloon\" border=\"0\" alt=\"boy in balloon\" src=\"http:\/\/commonwealthcommonsense.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83420265153ef0120a5e9c7f3970b-pi\" width=\"244\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:&#160; This could turn tragic.&#160; The balloon has landed\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20091015\/ap_on_re_us\/us_boy_in_balloon\" target=\"_blank\">and no boy is aboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 2: MSNBC is reporting that KUSA-TV in Denver is reporting that the boy has been found\u2026alive\u2026.in his house.&#160; If true, this is good news \u2013 for all of us.&#160; For the cops and the family, there are questions.&#160; A police sheriff is saying that the boy was in a box \u2013 but not in the balloon, but one in the attic of his family\u2019s garage.&#160; It was the boy\u2019s brother who told police the boy had climbed in the box attached to the balloon before it took off.&#160; There is a question whether there ever was a box attached to the balloon.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone is speculating why the 6-year old kid was hiding.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Now MSNBC is dragging this story out.&#160; A woman who switched places with his mother for a reality show said the kid was \u201ca prankster.\u201d&#160; But she speculates that the kid was probably hiding not to fool somebody, but because his father would kill him when dad finds out he let the balloon take off.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds good to me.&#160; Move along, folks.&#160; Nothing to see here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh will there be some \u2018splainin\u2019 to do! UPDATE:&#160; This could turn tragic.&#160; The balloon has landed\u2026and no boy is aboard. UPDATE 2: MSNBC is reporting that KUSA-TV in Denver is reporting that the boy has been found\u2026alive\u2026.in his house.&#160; If true, this is good news \u2013 for all of us.&#160; For the cops and&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/10\/15\/boy-in-a-balloon\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}