{"id":102713,"date":"2019-07-21T15:44:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T13:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/21\/french-inventor-to-attempt-to-cross-channel-on-jet-powered-flyboard\/"},"modified":"2019-07-21T15:44:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T13:44:22","slug":"french-inventor-to-attempt-to-cross-channel-on-jet-powered-flyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=102713","title":{"rendered":"French inventor to attempt to cross Channel on jet-powered flyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Flying soldier\u2019 Franky Zapata expects to cross from France to England in 20 minutesA former jetski champion and French military reservist who became known as the \u201cflying soldier\u201d after he invented a jet-powered hoverboard will attempt to cross the Channel this week.Franky Zapata, who impressed France with a demonstration of his flyboard at this year\u2019s Bastille Day parade, has said he will make the crossing on Thursday to mark the 110th anniversary of Louis Bl\u00e9riot\u2019s first cross-Channel airplane flight. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/21\/flying-soldier-to-attempt-channel-crossing-flyboard-franky-zapata\" target=\"_blank\">French inventor to attempt to cross Channel on jet-powered flyboard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Flying soldier\u2019 Franky Zapata expects to cross from France to England in 20 minutesA former jetski champion and French military reservist who became known as the \u201cflying soldier\u201d after he invented a jet-powered hoverboard will attempt to cross the Channel this week.Franky Zapata, who impressed France with a demonstration of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}