{"id":522,"date":"2011-08-09T09:25:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T07:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/?p=522"},"modified":"2011-08-09T09:25:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T07:25:43","slug":"acrobat-slips-during-record-ballon-tightrope-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/2011\/08\/09\/acrobat-slips-during-record-ballon-tightrope-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Acrobat slips during record ballon tightrope walk"},"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\" title=\"acrobat_falling_balloons_china\" src=\"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/mainpicts\/acrobat_falling_balloons_china.jpg\" alt=\"acrobat_falling_balloons_china\" width=\"199\" height=\"124\" \/>A performer from northwest China fails an attempt to walk across a tightrope strung between two hot air balloons.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Saimaiti Aishan, a member of northwest China&#8217;s Uighur Muslim ethnic group who have practised tightrope walking &#8211; or &#8216;Dawazi&#8217; &#8211; for centuries, set off carefully from one of the balloons floating 328 feet above the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The scene was broadcast nationwide on state television while hundreds of spectators below in Shaoyang in China&#8217;s central Hunan province held their breath as the acrobat kept his balance on the 50-foot wire, wobbling precariously as the balloons drifted with the wind.<\/p><!--CusAds0-->\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Earlier in the morning, Saimaiti Aishan had completed the same challenge at\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newsvideo\/weirdnewsvideo\/8685792\/Acrobat-walks-tightrope-between-hot-air-balloons.html\" target=\"_blank\">almost 100 feet off the ground<\/a><\/strong> in just five minutes.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>But this time, as he neared the other side after just two minutes, he lost balance and fell from the wire, hanging on by his arms and a fortuitous safety harness high above gasping crowds and media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The balloons were then lowered towards the ground, leaving Saimaiti Aishan safe from danger, but no closer to achieving his 100-metre-high challenge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A performer from northwest China fails an attempt to walk across a tightrope strung between two hot air balloons. Saimaiti Aishan, a member of northwest China&#8217;s Uighur Muslim ethnic group who have practised tightrope walking &#8211; or &#8216;Dawazi&#8217; &#8211; for centuries, set off carefully from one of the balloons floating 328 feet above the ground. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,24,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522"}],"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=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}