{"id":2676,"date":"2024-01-28T14:19:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T19:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2024-01-28T14:19:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T19:19:19","slug":"im-just-a-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/28\/im-just-a-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m just a bird"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-large-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI used to think, I\u2019m just a bird. The glider is the shell, the body of the bird. You become part of it. If you can get to that stage, you can manoeuvre the glider anywhere you want to. Rather than thinking about how to control the machine you\u2019re sitting in, you think, this is all a part of me.\u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/glide-omarama-glider-trial-scenic-flights-training-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/glide-omarama-glider-trial-scenic-flights-training-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/glide-omarama-glider-trial-scenic-flights-training-1-600x243.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/glide-omarama-glider-trial-scenic-flights-training-1-150x61.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/glide-omarama-glider-trial-scenic-flights-training-1-768x311.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lemmy Tanner, quoted in the 2018 book Skybound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI used to think, I\u2019m just a bird. The glider is the shell, the body of the bird. You become part of it. If you can get to that stage, you can manoeuvre the glider anywhere you want to. Rather than thinking about how to control the machine you\u2019re sitting in, you think, this is all a part of me.\u201c Lemmy Tanner, quoted in the 2018 book Skybound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[96,42],"class_list":["post-2676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-glider","tag-one-with"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2679,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions\/2679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}