{"id":4916,"date":"2011-01-09T00:45:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T04:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galadriel.astro.utoronto.ca\/ballast\/?p=4916"},"modified":"2011-01-09T00:46:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T04:46:14","slug":"waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?p=4916","title":{"rendered":"Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LDB is waiting. Matt and Elio are waiting for good weather near the gondola to fly out for recovery. Most of the riggers, techs, and the super-pressure balloon team are waiting for good weather to launch. Everyone is waiting to go home.<\/p>\n<p>I am waiting for a flight to pole, where I will spend a week with the Keck (formerly SPUD) telescope. (I plan to take tons of pictures, but probably won&#8217;t post them until later, due to the stricter internet situation at pole.) While waiting, Matt, Elio, and I have been packing. I don&#8217;t have pictures of that, but, rather, a treat: the &#8220;undisputed best picture in McMurdo&#8221;: The Claw!<\/p>\n<p>[image title=&#8221;The Claw!&#8221; size=&#8221;large&#8221; id=&#8221;4918&#8243; align=&#8221;left&#8221; alt=&#8221;Can you feel the power of The Claw?&#8221; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LDB is waiting. Matt and Elio are waiting for good weather near the gondola to fly out for recovery. Most of the riggers, techs, and the super-pressure balloon team are waiting for good weather to launch. Everyone is waiting to go home.<\/p>\n<p>I am waiting for a flight to pole, where I will spend a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4916"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4921,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions\/4921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}