{"id":12667,"date":"2014-02-01T15:03:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T20:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=12667"},"modified":"2014-02-01T15:03:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T20:03:42","slug":"would-you-call-him-an-odst-the-felix-baumgartner-freefall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=12667","title":{"rendered":"Would you call him an ODST? The Felix Baumgartner freefall."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012, Red Bull sponsored Felix Baumgartner&#8217;s world record attempt for highest free-fall.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did Felix beat the previous record by legendary Joe Kittinger, he&#8217;s also the first person to ever reach Mach 1, breaking the sound barrier, in a free-fall attempt.<\/p>\n<p>This video is absolutely awe-inspiring. The view is amazing. While I wouldn&#8217;t attempt this myself, it&#8217;s just exhilarating to live vicariously through Felix&#8217;s jump.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;d agree with him being an ODST or not, this feat is impressive.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GoPro: Red Bull Stratos - The Full Story\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dYw4meRWGd4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/sideshow\/new-hd-footage-of-felix-baumgartner-s-incredible-leap-to-earth-191058566.html?vp=1\">Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong>-Sal<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012, Red Bull sponsored Felix Baumgartner&#8217;s world record attempt for highest free-fall. Not only did Felix beat the previous record by legendary Joe Kittinger, he&#8217;s also the first person to ever reach Mach 1, breaking the sound barrier, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=12667\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-blog-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12669,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12667\/revisions\/12669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}