{"id":1728,"date":"2009-10-01T18:44:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T18:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2010-07-24T16:02:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T21:02:44","slug":"trick-kite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=1728","title":{"rendered":"Trick kite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last week I stopped at Virmond Park to get my weekly dose of the Great Lake Michigan. There on the bluff I watched a young man attempt to fly a trick kite. The kite had two lines and some serious rigging under it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(click images for larger view)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/l1005409_detail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1732\" title=\"l1005409_detail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/l1005409_detail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/l1005409_detail.jpg 1326w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/l1005409_detail-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He tried\u00a0over and over again\u00a0to create or catch a breeze; just couldn&#8217;t get it in the air. A young woman appeared walking out of the trees. And they worked together; yet could not gain flight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/l1005410_detail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1735\" title=\"l1005410_detail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/l1005410_detail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/l1005410_detail.jpg 1326w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/l1005410_detail-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/l1005411_detail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1740\" title=\"l1005411_detail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/l1005411_detail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/l1005411_detail.jpg 1326w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/l1005411_detail-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Leica M8, 28mm Summicron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I stopped at Virmond Park to get my weekly dose of the Great Lake Michigan. There on the bluff I watched a young man attempt to fly a trick kite. The kite had two lines and some serious rigging under it. (click images for larger view) He tried\u00a0over and over again\u00a0to create or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[3,51,19,37,34,17,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-hand-made","category-landscapes","category-people","category-photography","category-travel","category-self-expression","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1816,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}