{"id":3471,"date":"2026-03-21T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3471"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:54:07","slug":"first-around-the-world-hot-air-balloon-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3471","title":{"rendered":"First Around the World Hot Air Balloon Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12025\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12025\" class=\"wp-image-12025 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Breitling-Orbiter-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Breitling Orbiter 3\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Breitling Orbiter 3<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones in 1999 became the first people to circle the earth in a hot air balloon<\/strong>. Their 26,000-mile trip took 19 days, 21 hours, and 55 minutes. Their trip started in Switzerland and ended in Egypt. The gondola looks like a gigantic red pill, and solar panels provided power for GPS and communication. Children can see a photo of the gondola and read more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/airandspace.si.edu\/collections\/artifact.cfm?id=A19990257000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hot Air Balloon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones in 1999 became the first people to circle the earth in a hot air balloon. Their 26,000-mile trip took 19 days, 21 hours, and 55 minutes. Their trip started in Switzerland and ended in Egypt. The gondola looks like a gigantic red pill, and solar panels provided power for GPS <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3471' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4764,2367,3498,3497,5409],"class_list":["post-3471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4764","tag-bertrand-piccard","tag-brian-jones","tag-first-around-the-world-hot-air-balloon-trip","tag-march-21","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29976,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions\/29976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}