{"id":27877,"date":"2013-08-02T09:35:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T05:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=27877"},"modified":"2013-08-02T09:35:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T05:35:12","slug":"a-load-of-hot-air-more-than-400-balloons-take-to-the-skies-in-french-bid-to-break-the-world-record-for-a-mass-take-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=27877","title":{"rendered":"A load of hot air: More than 400 balloons take to the skies in French bid to break the world record for a mass take off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Lorraine-Mondial-international-hot-air-balloon-festival-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-27872\" alt=\"Lorraine Mondial international hot air balloon festival (1)\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Lorraine-Mondial-international-hot-air-balloon-festival-1.jpg\" width=\"578\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Lorraine-Mondial-international-hot-air-balloon-festival-1.jpg 964w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Lorraine-Mondial-international-hot-air-balloon-festival-1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Lorraine-Mondial-international-hot-air-balloon-festival-1-454x300.jpg 454w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><\/a>Filling the sky with a mass of colour, these extraordinary pictures show hundreds of balloons taking off during a new world record attempt.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 408 hot air balloons took off from a former Nato base in Chambley, France, in the hope of setting a new record for a mass take-off.<\/p>\n<p>The balloonists are taking part in the Lorraine Mondial international hot air balloon festival, which is held at the Chambley-Bussieres Aerodrome.<\/p>\n<p>They were attempting to beat the previous record, which was only set on Saturday at the same festival when 343 balloons successfully took to the air.<\/p>\n<p>This broke the previous record of 329 balloons, set in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The popular festival has been taking place in France since 1989 and attracts balloonists from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Previous record attempts at the festival have been hampered by bad weather. In 2011, hundreds of balloonists had to postpone their attempt while poor conditions cleared.<\/p>\n<p>Hot air balloon festivals are held annually around the world every year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filling the sky with a mass of colour, these extraordinary pictures show hundreds of balloons&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}