{"id":18343,"date":"2016-07-30T11:06:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T15:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=18343"},"modified":"2016-09-24T18:15:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T22:15:28","slug":"the-34th-annual-quickchek-ballooning-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=18343","title":{"rendered":"The 34th Annual QuickChek Ballooning Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?page_id=12747\">Photos &amp; Story\u00a0by: Michael Hujsa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"su_carousel_69f1bfab701ec\" class=\"su-carousel su-carousel-centered su-carousel-pages-yes su-carousel-responsive-yes su-lightbox-gallery\" style=\"width:100%\" data-autoplay=\"3000\" data-speed=\"600\" data-mousewheel=\"true\" data-items=\"2\" data-scroll=\"1\"><div class=\"su-carousel-slides\"><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5065.jpg\" 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class=\"su-carousel-pagination\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>The 34th Annual QuickChek Ballooning Festival will feature 3 hot air balloons from the Lehigh Valley. Come support them as they ascend with up to 100 other balloons! The 3 day event goes from July 29th to July 31st. This one tank gas trip, to Solberg Airport in Readington, NJ, is an event not to be missed!<\/p>\n<p>On Friday night the local Lehigh Valley balloons: FireStine &amp; Going Batty III were giving tethered flights. We did not see Private Eye Too, inclement weather could have prevented their Friday night flight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 3 Lehigh Valley balloons are as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Balloon #1: FireStine &#8211; Pilot: Chris Sommers Hometown: Slatington, PA<\/p>\n<p>Balloon #2: Going Batty III\u00a0&#8211; Pilot: Robert Ward Hometown: Quakertown, PA<\/p>\n<p>Balloon #3: Private Eye Too &#8211;\u00a0Pilot: R. Scott Kelley Hometown: Bethlehem, PA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Festivities also include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Concert &#8211; THIRD EYE BLIND<\/p>\n<p>Concert &#8211; FOGHAT<\/p>\n<p>Concert \u2013 JOHN KAY AND STEPPENWOLF<\/p>\n<p>Fireworks Extravaganza \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Friday night Running with the Balloons 5k Yoga\/Jazzercise Juggler, Magician, Comedian<\/p>\n<p>Please visit <a class=\"_553k\" href=\"http:\/\/balloonfestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/balloonfestival.com<\/a> for the daily schedules of performances.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2259,5],"tags":[3670,3672,3673,3671,3674],"class_list":["post-18343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-michael-hujsa-photography","category-photography","tag-ballon-festival","tag-firestine-balloon","tag-going-batty-iii-balloon","tag-hot-air-balloon","tag-private-eye-too-balloon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5239.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}