{"id":1733,"date":"2013-10-30T19:26:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T00:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2013-10-30T21:35:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T02:35:20","slug":"the-skies-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-airplanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/30\/the-skies-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-airplanes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Skies are Alive with the Sound of Airplanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend the skies above my part of Texas were full of vintage airplanes as part of the annual Wings over Houston airshow.<\/p>\n<p>The airshow, which takes place at Ellington Field Airport, allows visitors the chance to see planes up close and personal while thinking back to an age where air power involved actual pilots and crew risking their lives for freedom and not some pilotless drone or guided missile.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing against pilotless drones and guided missiles but few can argue that the amount of sacrifice is the same compared to the risks taken by aviators of the past.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1735\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1735\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Flight-demos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1735\" alt=\"Airshows, such as Wings over Houston, allow visitors the chance to see planes from many eras of aviation in action. Photo R. Anderson\" src=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Flight-demos-300x262.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Flight-demos-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Flight-demos-1024x895.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Airshows, such as Wings over Houston, allow visitors the chance to see planes from many eras of aviation in action.<br \/>Photo R. Anderson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was given the opportunity to cover the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend the skies above my part of Texas were full of vintage airplanes as part of the annual Wings over Houston airshow. The airshow, which takes place at Ellington Field Airport, allows visitors the chance to see planes up close and personal while thinking back to an age where air power involved actual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/30\/the-skies-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-airplanes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Skies are Alive with the Sound of Airplanes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[257,66,256],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}