{"id":7688,"date":"2012-01-09T12:45:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T11:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=7688"},"modified":"2012-01-09T12:47:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T11:47:25","slug":"would-you-bungee-off-a-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=7688","title":{"rendered":"Would you bungee off a bridge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No &#8211; neither would I. But my wife Vee would and has.<\/p>\n<p>I was reminded of this by the amazing news that a bungee jumper at the\u00a0Batoka Gorge\u00a0at Victoria Falls experienced a break in her line and fell into a crocodile-infested river with her feet still strapped up. You can view the video of the jump <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-16459489\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vee and I have been to Victoria Falls, walked across that bridge, and seen that bungee operation. She did not take the jump there because a week before she had done one in South Africa. This was from the\u00a0Bloukrans River Bridge which presents a jump <em>twice <\/em>as high as the one at Victoria Falls:\u00a0216 metres (708 feet) &#8211; compared to \u00a0&#8216;only&#8217; 111 metres (364 feet) &#8211; which makes it\u00a0the <em>highest<\/em> bungee jump in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Crazy, eh? You can read my account of her jump and see a couple of photos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/SouthernAfrica.html#Knysna\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No &#8211; neither would I. But my wife Vee would and has. I was reminded of this by the amazing news that a bungee jumper at the\u00a0Batoka Gorge\u00a0at Victoria Falls experienced a break in her line and fell into a crocodile-infested river with her feet still strapped up. You can view the video of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688","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=7688"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7695,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions\/7695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}