{"id":56,"date":"2023-07-22T08:36:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T07:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paraglideworldwide.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2024-03-02T17:08:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T06:08:48","slug":"in-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paraglideworldwide.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/22\/in-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"In the beginning&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here I am, 53 years old, in an office based routine. Nothing very exciting happening from week to week, month to month. The odd week or two on holiday. Wife and kids&#8230;all very normal.. enjoyable but normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided to take myself out of my comfort zone and challenge myself. Ive decided to escape the office life and paraglide at various sites around the world &#8211; from cubicle to cloud base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m based in sydney, and have just come back from Manilla north of Tamworth. Godfrey and team has helped me on my way and I hope 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 site 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 are 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I am, 53 years old, in an office based routine. Nothing very exciting happening from week to week, month to month. The odd week or two on holiday. Wife and kids&#8230;all very normal.. enjoyable but normal. I&#8217;ve decided to take myself out of my comfort zone and challenge myself. Ive decided to escape the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paraglideworldwide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paraglideworldwide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paraglideworldwide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paraglideworldwide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/paraglideworldwide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paraglideworldwide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paraglideworldwide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paraglideworldwide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}