{"id":308,"date":"2014-08-23T23:43:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T03:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/?p=308"},"modified":"2014-08-25T23:05:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T03:05:10","slug":"oh-what-beautiful-mornin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"Oh What  Beautiful Mornin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While having our morning coffee in the room this morning, \u00a0I happened to notice some hot air balloons reflected in the mirror. I wanted to photograph them, so I hurried through my shower and decided to get in the car and chase them down.<\/p>\n<p>Joyce at first more interested in breakfast, but on second thought decided to join me on the chase. \u00a0They had started west of town and were heading east. \u00a0So we hopped on I-40E and zoomed over to I-25N and got off a couple of exits later. \u00a0After driving around a shopping center for about 5 minutes we came upon one balloon landing in an open field and were able to get quite a few photographs. \u00a0We also got an opportunity to talk with the balloonists and their passengers.<\/p>\n<p>What a start to the day !<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140823_080630-e1408851305225.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"312\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/?attachment_id=312\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140823_080630-e1408851305225.jpg?fit=1050%2C1400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1050,1400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SCH-I545&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1408781189&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0007716049382716&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20140823_080630\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140823_080630-e1408851305225.jpg?fit=474%2C632&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-312\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140823_080630-e1408808180483-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"20140823_080630\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While having our morning coffee in the room this morning, \u00a0I happened to notice some hot air balloons reflected in the mirror. I wanted to photograph them, so I hurried through my shower and decided to get in the car and chase them down. 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