{"id":1374,"date":"2014-03-08T11:48:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T11:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2014-03-08T11:48:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T11:48:44","slug":"rita-to-set-up-a-balloon-school-in-bhopal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/rita-to-set-up-a-balloon-school-in-bhopal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rita to set up a balloon school in Bhopal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rita Yadav, Indias first woman hot-air balloon commercial pilot, wants to set up her training school in Bhopal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be the first of its kind in the country. Bhopal has tremendous potential for adventure sport,&#8221; said Rita.<\/p>\n<p>Ritas message on womens day &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Nothing is impossible if you have family support. Women should believe in themselves. Whatever I have achieved till date, I owe it to my family.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rita started flying hot-air balloons in 2001 and travelled across the globe, participating in hot-air ballooning events.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want young girls of Bhopal to opt for this profession and other adventure sports. I have been coming to Bhopal for five years and have found youth high on adventure sports,&#8221; Rita said.<\/p>\n<p>Rita said a school for hot-air balloon will help aspirants become a certified pilot, rather than going abroad for training. &#8220;Even the district collector liked the idea of opening a school for hot air balloon. Also, this school will be less expensive,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>via &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/bhopal\/Rita-wants-to-set-up-a-hot-air-balloon-institute-in-Bhopal\/articleshow\/31659576.cms\">The Times of India<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rita Yadav, Indias first woman hot-air balloon commercial pilot, wants to set up her training school in Bhopal. &#8220;It will be the first of its kind in the country. Bhopal has tremendous potential for adventure sport,&#8221; said Rita. Ritas message on womens day &#8211; &#8220;Nothing is impossible if you have family support. Women should believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[793,795,162,796,792,658,395,794],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-bhopal","tag-commercial-pilot","tag-india","tag-pilot","tag-rita-yadav","tag-school","tag-training","tag-world-womens-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RIC2-ma","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}