{"id":3626,"date":"2026-04-03T15:37:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/?p=3626"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:06:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:06:03","slug":"photography-pioneer-nadar-went-on-a-mad-balloon-ride-that-ended-in-near-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/photography-pioneer-nadar-went-on-a-mad-balloon-ride-that-ended-in-near-catastrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography Pioneer Nadar Went on a Mad Balloon Ride That Ended in Near-Catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feature-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2026\/04\/03\/photography-pioneer-nadar-went-on-a-mad-balloon-ride-that-ended-in-near-catastrophe\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1600\" height=\"840\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-card-large size-card-large wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"A vintage photo shows a hot air balloon lifting off before a large crowd. Beside it, a man in a suit and top hat sits in a balloon basket, holding sandbags, against a cloudy sky.\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Felix-Nadar-Le-Geant08.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Le G\u00e9ant was an enormous 196-foot-tall gas balloon that photography pioneer F\u00e9lix Nadar used in his bid to master aerial imagery &#8212; it all ended in a 25-mile-long crash and his wife landing in a river.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2026\/04\/03\/photography-pioneer-nadar-went-on-a-mad-balloon-ride-that-ended-in-near-catastrophe\/\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le G\u00e9ant was an enormous 196-foot-tall gas balloon that photography pioneer F\u00e9lix Nadar used in his bid to master aerial imagery &#8212; it all ended in a 25-mile-long crash and his wife landing in a river. [Read More]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3629,"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions\/3629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}