{"id":1619,"date":"2014-03-28T09:39:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T09:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2014-03-28T09:39:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T09:39:11","slug":"mike-pero-launches-sky-high-advert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/mike-pero-launches-sky-high-advert\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Pero launches sky-high advert"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those who thought they saw a house flying over Christchurch, New Zealand today were not mistaken.<\/p>\n

Mike Pero, of Mike Pero Real Estate, was in the house-shaped hot air balloon with a pilot this morning.\u00a0Pero said the company had owned the balloon for a long time after a shareholder decided to buy it, but it was the first time they had brought it to Christchurch.<\/p>\n

”It’s probably the first house to be flying over the city in the history of Christchurch.”<\/p>\n

The unusual balloon had already flown across Auckland and Sydney harbours, and had been to Wellington.\u00a0Today was Pero’s first time in a hot air balloon, having been ”one of those bucket list items”, he said.<\/p>\n

”The reason we got it up today was that there was virtually no wind on the ground. It’s very weather dependent.”<\/p>\n

The balloon was launched from an Avondale Park about 9am, flying over the CBD before landing in a field near Prebbleton less than an hour later.<\/p>\n

Pero said he was thrilled to see people on the city’s streets pointing up at the strange sight and waving.<\/p>\n

”I think it’s something Cantabrians haven’t seen. It’s such a buzz to be able to make peoples’ day.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The house-shaped balloon was made in England and was about seven-storeys high when fully inflated.<\/p>\n

”It has enough space to house over 35 semi-trailers,” Pero said.<\/p>\n

via –\u00a0Stuff.co.nz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those who thought they saw a house flying over Christchurch, New Zealand today were not mistaken. Mike Pero, of Mike Pero Real Estate, was in the house-shaped hot air balloon with a pilot this morning.\u00a0Pero said the company had owned the balloon for a long time after a shareholder decided to buy it, but it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1621,"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":[27],"tags":[960,964,963,967,202,962,965,966],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-auckland","tag-avondale-park","tag-christchurch","tag-mike-pero","tag-new-zealand","tag-prebbleton","tag-sydney","tag-wellington"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/9880197.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RIC2-q7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","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=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1622,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions\/1622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}