{"id":3555,"date":"2010-08-27T20:26:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T19:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2010-08-29T09:52:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T08:52:31","slug":"friday-27th-august-2010-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=3555","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 27th August 2010 (UK)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Geoff writes:<\/strong> it didn&#8217;t rain (well, just a few spots). It was a nice day, a bit lighter winds than I expected. Went to Llangollen. It was flyable most of the afternoon, until it blew out, but no -one got away (there weren&#8217;t many people there, surprisingly enough). The only reasonable climb I got was immediately aftetr my first launch, and in retrospect I should have gone with that, but it was quite weak, and it seemed like there&#8217;d be plenty of other opportunities to get away. There weren&#8217;t. I landed, after big wave clouds started developing (they always make me a bit worried), then flew again a bit later, when they dissipated &#8211; to be replaced by some bigger cumulus. Overall, it was a reasonable soaring day for people, but \u00a0probably we could have made more of it in terms of XC. People did go in the Peaks, from Lords, but there were a lot more flying there too.<\/p>\n<p>Long Mountain didn&#8217;t work at all, too light, I think. The Lawley, the last report I had, people couldn&#8217;t stay up, but that might have changed as the day went on. [It did, and Siro, at least, had a great flight]<\/p>\n<p>On driving home, early evening, I saw three gliders at Lan Fawr, doing some evening soaring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff writes: it didn&#8217;t rain (well, just a few spots). It was a nice day, a bit lighter winds than I expected. Went to Llangollen. It was flyable most of the afternoon, until it blew out, but no -one got away (there weren&#8217;t many people there, surprisingly enough). The only reasonable climb I got was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3559,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions\/3559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}