{"id":108,"date":"2010-08-27T13:26:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T20:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dicum.com\/clips\/?p=108"},"modified":"2010-08-27T13:26:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T20:26:04","slug":"as-tourism-and-advertising-slide-a-zeppelin-company-tries-to-stay-aloft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dicum.com\/clips\/as-tourism-and-advertising-slide-a-zeppelin-company-tries-to-stay-aloft\/","title":{"rendered":"As Tourism and Advertising Slide, a Zeppelin Company Tries to Stay Aloft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"date\">January 1, 2010<\/p>\n<p>At high noon on Oct. 25, 2008, the zeppelin Eureka glided over the Golden Gate Bridge, around San Francisco&#8217;s waterfront, and then south to land lightly at Moffett Field in Mountain View &mdash; the first dirigible to grace the region&#8217;s skies since the days when Silicon Valley was more famous for its peaches than for its personal computers.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandra Hall, the co-founder and chief executive of Airship Ventures, had hoped to make rigid-bodied dirigibles a regular presence in the Bay Area skies once again, ferrying well-heeled tourists on $495 rides above San Francisco Bay, conducting atmospheric experiments and serving as a flying billboard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/01\/us\/01sfzeppelin.html\">Read it on the NYT Site&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 1, 2010 At high noon on Oct. 25, 2008, the zeppelin Eureka glided over the Golden Gate Bridge, around San Francisco&#8217;s waterfront, and then south to land lightly at Moffett Field in Mountain View &mdash; the first dirigible to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dicum.com\/clips\/as-tourism-and-advertising-slide-a-zeppelin-company-tries-to-stay-aloft\/\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-times","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dicum.com\/clips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dicum.com\/clips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dicum.com\/clips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dicum.com\/clips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dicum.com\/clips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dicum.com\/clips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dicum.com\/clips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dicum.com\/clips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dicum.com\/clips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}