{"id":585,"date":"2008-11-26T22:04:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T02:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/?p=585"},"modified":"2008-11-26T22:08:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T02:08:38","slug":"macys-thanksgiving-parade-part-one-balloon-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/26\/macys-thanksgiving-parade-part-one-balloon-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Parade, part one (Balloon Inflation)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/macys-balloon.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"586\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/26\/macys-thanksgiving-parade-part-one-balloon-inflation\/macys-balloon\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/macys-balloon.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot G9&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1227741871&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;7.4&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"macys-balloon\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/macys-balloon-550x412.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/macys-balloon.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-586\" title=\"macys-balloon\" src=\"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/macys-balloon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/macys-balloon.jpg 800w, http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/macys-balloon-550x412.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I went sans Adrienne to the balloon inflation held on the north and south sides of the American Museum of Natural History on the Upper West Side. They warned of crowds&#8230; yeah, I&#8217;ll say! It was still kinda cool to see. But I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be going back. But, you can enjoy the pictures, after the jump.<!--more--><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":1,\"permalink\":\"http:\\\/\\\/davidtallacksen.com\\\/blog\\\/2008\\\/11\\\/26\\\/macys-thanksgiving-parade-part-one-balloon-inflation\\\/\"}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-585 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/26\/macys-thanksgiving-parade-part-one-balloon-inflation\/macys-balloon\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/macys-balloon-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" data-attachment-id=\"586\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/26\/macys-thanksgiving-parade-part-one-balloon-inflation\/macys-balloon\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/macys-balloon.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot G9&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1227741871&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;7.4&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"macys-balloon\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/macys-balloon-550x412.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/macys-balloon.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Oh, and apologies for not the greatest photos, the crowd was such that you just had to keep moving, all while making sure you didn&#8217;t step on someone or get run over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went sans Adrienne to the balloon inflation held on the north and south sides of the American Museum of Natural History on the Upper West Side. They warned of crowds&#8230; yeah, I&#8217;ll say! It was still kinda cool to see. But I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be going back. But, you can enjoy the pictures, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19,5,14,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQPn-9r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}