{"id":5639,"date":"2012-11-05T09:18:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T15:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/?p=5639"},"modified":"2012-11-05T09:24:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T15:24:52","slug":"for-the-love-of-p-51s-and-fa-22-raptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/2012\/for-the-love-of-p-51s-and-fa-22-raptors\/","title":{"rendered":"For the love of P-51s and F\/A 22 Raptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We took the boys to the Wings Over Houston air show this year.<\/p>\n<p>Will couldn&#8217;t get enough.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas didn&#8217;t like the noise.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan slept, even with &#8220;bombs&#8221; going off, as they reenacted Pearl Harbor.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a girly girl, but even I see the &#8220;beauty&#8221; in these incredible machines.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Angels put on an AMAZING show, stopping just before they broke speed of sound, scaring me as they crossed each other&#8217;s paths so closely.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5642\" style=\"width: 539px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/2012\/for-the-love-of-p-51s-and-fa-22-raptors\/blueangels\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5642\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5642\" class=\" wp-image-5642 \" title=\"blueangels\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/blueangels.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/blueangels.jpg 882w, http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/blueangels-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue Angels<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The F\/A 22 Raptor was probably my favorite. It&#8217;s an incredible machine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5641\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/2012\/for-the-love-of-p-51s-and-fa-22-raptors\/raptor\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5641\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5641\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5641\" title=\"raptor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/raptor-e1352128529910-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/raptor-e1352128529910-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/raptor-e1352128529910.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5641\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raptor<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Will has an obsession with the P-51. They were offering 30 minute rides on them. He is 11 years too young and must save $2000 to participate.<\/p>\n<p>He enjoyed being up close, though!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5647\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/2012\/for-the-love-of-p-51s-and-fa-22-raptors\/mustangreal\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5647\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5647\" class=\" wp-image-5647  \" title=\"mustangreal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mustangreal-e1352129023502.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">P-51 Mustang<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We hope to make this a new family tradition and attend every year.<\/p>\n<p>The funniest part?! We had to stop what we were doing and watch the skydivers. We see them every weekend now and even take part, but it&#8217;s still something you just HAVE to observe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took the boys to the Wings Over Houston air show this year. Will couldn&#8217;t get enough. Lucas didn&#8217;t like the noise. Nathan slept, even with &#8220;bombs&#8221; going off, as they reenacted Pearl Harbor. I&#8217;m a girly girl, but even I see the &#8220;beauty&#8221; in these incredible machines. The Blue Angels put on an AMAZING [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":""},"categories":[139,132],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-extracurricular","7":"category-family","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5zEve-1sX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}