{"id":2631,"date":"2010-03-19T11:50:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T19:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2010-03-19T15:41:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T23:41:22","slug":"cloud-9-brought-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/cloud-9-brought-to-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud 9 brought to earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been enjoying [<em>sic<\/em>] an unusually blustery winter in Las Vegas. All that&#8217;s missing is <strong>Eeyore<\/strong>. Well, him and now the <strong><em>Cloud 9<\/em> sightseeing balloon<\/strong>. This piquant Strip attraction <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox5vegas.com\/video\/22887449\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">met a tragic end yesterday<\/a>. (Douchebaggy <strong>Fox 5<\/strong> doesn&#8217;t permit video embeds. Sorry. Too bad the video-shooting spectators didn&#8217;t think to ejaculate &#8220;Oh, the humanity!&#8221;) <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cloud 9<\/em> had already been grounded for a week or so after<!--more--> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox5vegas.com\/news\/22887744\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">a rough landing damaged its undercarriage<\/a> and a new one had to be shipped in from France. Between this and the brief tenure of the <strong>M Resort<\/strong> airship, Las Vegas just hasn&#8217;t been a great place for airship-spotting lately. The <em>Cloud 9 <\/em>crash is doubly disappointing for me, as my ladyfriend and I were scheduled to go aloft on Monday. Then again, maybe we should be counting our lucky stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been enjoying [sic] an unusually blustery winter in Las Vegas. All that&#8217;s missing is Eeyore. Well, him and now the Cloud 9 sightseeing balloon. This piquant Strip attraction met a tragic end yesterday. (Douchebaggy Fox 5 doesn&#8217;t permit video &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/cloud-9-brought-to-earth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,63,9,19,100,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2654,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions\/2654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}