{"id":11977,"date":"2013-07-25T08:53:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T07:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=11977"},"modified":"2013-07-25T08:53:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T07:53:51","slug":"what-is-the-highest-bungee-jump-in-the-world-and-would-you-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=11977","title":{"rendered":"What is the highest bungee jump in the world &#8211; and would you do it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/jul\/24\/world-highest-bungee-jump-plan\">news<\/a> today that there are plans to build &#8220;the world&#8217;s highest bungee jumping platform&#8221; on a Swiss cliff top. This raises the question of what is currently the highest bungee jump on the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Now for me it&#8217;s an academic question, because you ain&#8217;t going to get me doing any sort of bungee jump. But to some the definition and location are all important.<\/p>\n<p>There is <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.cnn.com\/explorations\/life\/worlds-15-highest-bungee-jumping-sites-479316\">a list<\/a> of the 15 highest bungee jumps on the planet. The fourth on the list &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceadrenalin.com\">Bloukrans Bridge <\/a>in South Africa &#8211; is described as &#8220;the highest commercial natural bungee jump in the world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I note this because, in 2004, my wife and I were on a tour of Southern Africa when we visited Bloukrans Bridge and, then just short of her 60th birthday, she made the jump. Crazy or what?<\/p>\n<p>You can read my account of her amazing jump\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/SouthernAfrica.html#Knysna\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is news today that there are plans to build &#8220;the world&#8217;s highest bungee jumping platform&#8221; on a Swiss cliff top. This raises the question of what is currently the highest bungee jump on the globe. Now for me it&#8217;s an academic question, because you ain&#8217;t going to get me doing any sort of bungee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11977"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11986,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11977\/revisions\/11986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}