{"id":1374,"date":"2011-07-31T17:14:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T09:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2015-11-15T13:32:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T05:32:37","slug":"go-fly-a-kite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2011\/07\/go-fly-a-kite\/","title":{"rendered":"Go fly a kite!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went kite flying during the weekend.\u00a0 First session was with my daugther&#8217;s Kite Flying Day&#8217;s\u00a0 kite.\u00a0 That did not fare very well.\u00a0 It kept insisting on flying the wrong way round.\u00a0 With the string on one shoulder, Any flight short or long is destined earthwards.<\/p>\n<p>The second session with a freebie from the local Resident&#8217;s Committee (RC) anti crime day.\u00a0 Now we are talking.\u00a0 Hitch the line to pre-stamped eyelet (hole) and the running line through the guide.\u00a0 Assemble the kite and hold it up in the air.\u00a0 The wind takes care of the rest.\u00a0 No running of waving of arms required.\u00a0 All I needed to do is run it out and avoid the air space of the $200-4-control-string-kite-neighbour.<\/p>\n<p>An eye off the reel, the kite literally pulled all the string out and took off.\u00a0 I ended up chasing after a runaway kite.\u00a0 Luckily without tension, it crashed some 200 metres away.\u00a0 I got it before somebody souvenir-ed it.<\/p>\n<p>All in all great fun.\u00a0 I strongly recommend trying it out as the flying fields are slowly converted into construction sites.\u00a0 By this time next year, none will be left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went kite flying during the weekend.\u00a0 First session was with my daugther&#8217;s Kite Flying Day&#8217;s\u00a0 kite.\u00a0 That did not fare very well.\u00a0 It kept insisting on flying the wrong way round.\u00a0 With the string on one shoulder, Any flight&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,248],"tags":[224],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-fun","tag-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2193,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/2193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}