{"id":1405,"date":"2013-08-17T12:26:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T10:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2013-08-17T12:26:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T10:26:28","slug":"the-airmail-flight-was-154-year-ago-by-hot-air-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/2013\/08\/17\/the-airmail-flight-was-154-year-ago-by-hot-air-balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"The first airmail flight was 154 year ago by hot air balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a246cb021816c9f476ac16cb834b7362\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2865779868887008\";\r\n\/* Android box *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1345074415\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Montgolfier balloon\" src=\"http:\/\/ballon.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Montgolfier_h%C5%91l%C3%A9ballon.jpg\" width=\"268\" height=\"400\" \/>August 17, 1859 John\u00a0Wise flew from\u00a0Lafayette,\u00a0Indiana, to\u00a0Crawfordsville, Indiana, and carried 123 letters and 23 circulars on board that had been collected by the postmaster Thomas Wood and endorsed &#8220;PREPAID&#8221; but only one of these historic postal covers was discovered in 1957.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, balloons were used to transport mail from Paris during the\u00a0Franco-Prussian War\u00a0of 1870-72. Sixty-five unguided mail balloons were released in besieged Paris to communicate with the world beyond the besieging forces, of which only two went missing.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0--><!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 17, 1859 John\u00a0Wise flew from\u00a0Lafayette,\u00a0Indiana, to\u00a0Crawfordsville, Indiana, and carried 123 letters and 23 circulars on board that had been collected by the postmaster Thomas Wood and endorsed &#8220;PREPAID&#8221; but only one of these historic postal covers was discovered in 1957. Historically, balloons were used to transport mail from Paris during the\u00a0Franco-Prussian War\u00a0of 1870-72. Sixty-five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,15,20,24],"tags":[55,65,71,75,105,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}