{"id":249,"date":"2010-06-14T08:41:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T08:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=249"},"modified":"2010-06-16T16:09:33","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T16:09:33","slug":"blackheath-kite-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/14\/blackheath-kite-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackheath Kite Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/DeepSpace.jpg\" alt=\"Benson Deep Space kites\" title=\"Benson Deep Space kites\" width=\"225\" height=\"313\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-250\" \/>I had two great days at the Blackheath Kite (and Bike) Festival last weekend. It&#8217;s always good to meet up with old friends and get to know new ones and there were plenty there, especially from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fracturedaxel.co.uk\/phpbb3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fractured Axel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday I commentated on a trick flying display in the arena with Chris Goff and Piero Serra performing the tricks I called out to order.<\/p>\n<p>On the Sunday there were a lot of people flying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bensonkites.com\/kites\/deepspace.html\" target=\"_blank\">Benson Deep Space<\/a> kites so we decided to do a group photo &#8211; 16 in all, although I think there were still one or two flying on the far side of the field.<\/p>\n<p>The Scratch Bunnies (the current world champion kite team, on the day comprising Carl and James Robertshaw, Chris Goff and Sasha Reading) put on a great impromptu display. I think it was the only event in the arena to get a spontaneous round of applause from the crowd during their routine. Precision flying at its best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had two great days at the Blackheath Kite (and Bike) Festival last weekend. It&#8217;s always good to meet up with old friends and get to know new ones and there were plenty there, especially from Fractured Axel. On Saturday I commentated on a trick flying display in the arena with Chris Goff and Piero [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25,24,64],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kites","tag-benson","tag-blackheath","tag-kites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}