{"id":201,"date":"2008-08-10T09:20:28","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T13:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efsavage.com\/blog\/?p=201"},"modified":"2011-05-31T07:32:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T11:32:26","slug":"hudson-balloon-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/hudson-balloon-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Hudson Balloon Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/efsavage\/2748037535\/\" title=\"Hot Air Balloon by Eric F Savage, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3022\/2748037535_b4bf6719aa_m.jpg\" width=\"159\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Hot Air Balloon\" class=\"soloShot\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s an annual balloon festival in Hudson, MA.  The festival itself isn&#8217;t much, a dozen or so local vendors, but it happens to be across the street from Reeny, so it&#8217;s hard to argue against checking it out.  I was somewhat surprised that it seems fairly easy to get one in the air, you roll it out, blow a fan into it, and fire it up when it&#8217;s almost ready.  I&#8217;m sure there are some tricks, but they&#8217;re typically launched by just a few people.  It was also a good test of one of my new toys, the circular polarizing lens filter, which can really make the blue sky and clouds pop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/efsavage\/2748869054\/\" title=\"Hot Air Balloon in Flight by Eric F Savage, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3160\/2748869054_9b9f37651f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Hot Air Balloon in Flight\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/efsavage\/2748865262\/\" title=\"Hot Air Balloons at Night by Eric F Savage, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3242\/2748865262_2f24756804.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"287\" alt=\"Hot Air Balloons at Night\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an annual balloon festival in Hudson, MA. The festival itself isn&#8217;t much, a dozen or so local vendors, but it happens to be across the street from Reeny, so it&#8217;s hard to argue against checking it out. I was somewhat surprised that it seems fairly easy to get one in the air, you roll&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"simppeli-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/hudson-balloon-festival\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hudson Balloon Festival<\/span> <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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1AkJt-3f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}