{"id":241,"date":"2025-10-24T13:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T02:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paraglideworldwide.com\/?page_id=241"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T02:37:17","slug":"old-welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paraglideworldwide.com\/index.php\/old-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"old welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s me &#8211; in my fifties. Living an office based routine &#8211; commute, work, commute, evening, sleep, repeat. Catch a breath at the  weekend. Nothing very exciting happening from week to week, month to month. The odd week or two on holiday, kids&#8230;all very normal.. enjoyable but normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I&#8217;ve decided to take myself out of my comfort zone and challenge myself. Ive decided to escape the routine life and paraglide at various sites around the world &#8211; from cubicle to cloud base you could say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I very much doubt anyone other than me will read this, so it really is a diary so I can remember my experiences when I&#8217;m a bit older and a bit more forgetful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m based north of Sydney, and have just come back from Manilla north of Tamworth. Godfrey and team has helped me on my way and I hope to fly next down at Stanwell, when the wind swings around and also the Blue Mountains and Lake St Claire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bali is on the hit list as well as a few other sites in Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I may head to the UK for a fly. Europe and the alps, and then North America is on the list longer term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have an action camera and a strong desire to shake off my comfortably numb malaise..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;here goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s me &#8211; in my fifties. Living an office based routine &#8211; commute, work, commute, evening, sleep, repeat. Catch a breath at the weekend. Nothing very exciting happening from week to week, month to month. The odd week or two on holiday, kids&#8230;all very normal.. enjoyable but normal. So, I&#8217;ve decided to take myself out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-241","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paraglideworldwide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paraglideworldwide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paraglideworldwide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paraglideworldwide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paraglideworldwide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paraglideworldwide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/paraglideworldwide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paraglideworldwide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}