{"id":72824,"date":"2020-08-20T09:29:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T13:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/?p=72824"},"modified":"2020-08-28T00:49:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T04:49:50","slug":"david-blaine-will-hold-helium-balloons-to-float-across-the-hudson-river-in-next-big-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/david-blaine-will-hold-helium-balloons-to-float-across-the-hudson-river-in-next-big-stunt\/","title":{"rendered":"David Blaine Will Hold Helium Balloons To Float Across The Hudson River In Next Big Stunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72827\" src=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/david-blaine-balloono.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/david-blaine-balloono.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/david-blaine-balloono-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/david-blaine-balloono-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/david-blaine-balloono-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/david-blaine-balloono-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Magician David Blaine has debuted a teaser trailer for <u>an upcoming stunt<\/u>\u00a0he\u2019s selling as a YouTube exclusive: floating across the Hudson River while holding some balloons on August 31. The project is called\u00a0<em>David Blaine Ascension<\/em>,<em>\u00a0<\/em>and it will be his first public stunt of this kind in nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Something magical is coming | David Blaine Ascension\" width=\"1060\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oKAzg14mx88?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Blaine is channeling his inner &#8216;UP&#8217;, in reference to the 2009 Pixar movie in which an old man ties a bunch of <a href=\"https:\/\/balloons.online\/\">helium balloons<\/a> to his house and floats across the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Another inspiration for Blaine&#8217;s newest stunt is daredevil &#8216;Lawnchair Larry&#8217;, who flew to 15,000 feet of altitude\u00a0<a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.airspacemag.com\/airspacemag\/flying-lawn-chair-180972974\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.airspacemag.com\/airspacemag\/flying-lawn-chair-180972974\/\"><u>in a lawn chair<\/u><\/a>\u00a0attached to helium balloons. His flight turned daunting as he struggled to stop ascending and then\u00a0<em>descending<\/em>\u00a0too rapidly.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_72826\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72826\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-72826 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lawnchair-larry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lawnchair-larry.jpg 768w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lawnchair-larry-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-72826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lawnchair Larry<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lawnchair Larry endured a frightening test spending 14 hours at that <em>cold<\/em> extreme height and then drifted into protected space over LAX airport. His trip is now forever remembered at the Smithsonian Air &amp; Space Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magician David Blaine has debuted a teaser trailer for an upcoming stunt\u00a0he\u2019s selling as a YouTube exclusive: floating across the Hudson River while holding some balloons on August 31. The project is called\u00a0David Blaine Ascension,\u00a0and it will be his first public stunt of this kind in nearly a decade. Blaine is channeling his inner &#8216;UP&#8217;, in reference to the 2009 Pixar movie in which an old man ties a bunch of helium balloons to his house and floats across the sky. Another inspiration for Blaine&#8217;s newest stunt is daredevil &#8216;Lawnchair Larry&#8217;, who flew to 15,000 feet of altitude\u00a0in a lawn <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3866,"featured_media":72827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[13896,33759,18605,33758,33761,33760,33764,33763,33762,9468,12219],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72824"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=72824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}