{"id":2980,"date":"2025-07-17T22:34:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T02:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2025-07-17T22:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T02:36:18","slug":"r-i-p-felix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2980","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P Felix (and Col. Joe K. too)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/skydiver-felix-baumgartner-known-record-205029332.html\">Skydiver Felix Baumgartner, known for record-breaking jump from stratosphere, dies in paragliding crash<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He jumped from 24 miles up in 2012, when I was just 51 years old. But we should also remember that an Air Force officer named Joseph Kittinger jumped from 19.45 miles up, THE YEAR BEFORE I WAS BORN! He passed away in 2022 at the age of 94. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Kittinger\">Joseph Kittinger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It should be mentioned that Joe was the technical consultant to Felix on his jump. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skydiver Felix Baumgartner, known for record-breaking jump from stratosphere, dies in paragliding crash He jumped from 24 miles up in 2012, when I was just 51 years old. But we should also remember that an Air Force officer named Joseph &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2980\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-2980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}