{"id":7311,"date":"2026-09-19T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7311"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:47:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:47:41","slug":"hot-air-balloon-with-animal-passengers-1783","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7311","title":{"rendered":"Hot Air Balloon with Animal Passengers &#8211; 1783"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10845\" style=\"width: 138px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10845\" class=\"wp-image-10845 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Hot-Air.jpg\" alt=\"Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride\" width=\"128\" height=\"185\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Hot air balloon with animal passengers was flown for the first time in 1783<\/strong>. Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier launched their <i>globe aerostatique<\/i> in France. The duck, sheep, and rooster all survived the ten-minute trip! Children could read the amazing <i>Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride, <\/i>written and illustrated\u00a0by Marjorie Priceman. The book earned a 2006 Caldecott Honor Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot air balloon with animal passengers was flown for the first time in 1783. Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier launched their globe aerostatique in France. The duck, sheep, and rooster all survived the ten-minute trip! Children could read the amazing Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride, written and illustrated\u00a0by Marjorie <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7311' 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":[113,1652,408,1651,1650,110,109,1654,5865,1653],"class_list":["post-7311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-113","tag-duck","tag-france","tag-globe-aerostatique","tag-hot-air-balloon-with-animal-passengers","tag-jacques-montgolfier","tag-joseph-montgolfier","tag-rooster","tag-september-19","tag-sheep","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\/7311","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=7311"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29727,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311\/revisions\/29727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}