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Eight local hot air balloon pilots were featured in a surprise flash mob balloon glow around 6 p.m. Tuesday evening in Longview.<\/p>\n

While the pilots simultaneously fired up their propane burners, visitors had a chance to walk up to the balloons and talk to the pilots themselves. Even Santa made an appearance to the somewhat impromptu event.<\/p>\n

The event was held to spread a little Christmas cheer during the holiday season, according to the Great Texas Balloon Race Facebook<\/a> page.<\/p>\n

via –\u00a0Longview News-Journal: Local News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eight local hot air balloon pilots were featured in a surprise flash mob balloon glow around 6 p.m. Tuesday evening in Longview. While the pilots simultaneously fired up their propane burners, visitors had a chance to walk up to the balloons and talk to the pilots themselves. Even Santa made an appearance to the somewhat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":593,"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":[2,19],"tags":[195,196,197,36],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-hot-air","tag-flash-mob","tag-longview","tag-texas","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/52b1006a7b750.image_.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RIC2-9x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","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=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}