{"id":372,"date":"2008-08-03T21:02:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T04:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=372"},"modified":"2025-05-27T15:36:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T19:36:28","slug":"lets-go-fly-a-kite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/08\/lets-go-fly-a-kite\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s go fly a kite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/michaelwyszomierski\/LetSGoFlyAKite\/photo#5230503679805076178\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/char-kite-1.jpg\" alt=\"Charlene flying a kite\" class=\"wp-image-373\" title=\"Charlene Flying\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/char-kite-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/char-kite-1-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This year at Google&#8217;s annual Summer Picnic, we all got our own kites as a gift, because Google is cool like that. We ran them through some extensive flight testing today at the kite flying area in Shoreline Park. After a tip from a kiteboarder to add more material to the tail, we had them flying high. Of course not everything was smooth sailing. Reid&#8217;s kite flew away, sending him and Charlene on a long journey to retrieve it, and they both got attacked by nature in the process. I don&#8217;t untangle knots, so my kite flew with a <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/michaelwyszomierski\/LetSGoFlyAKite\/photo#5230501054055027058\">pretty big one<\/a>. At one point, I had unraveled my line completely, and without realizing that it wasn&#8217;t tied to the plastic handle, let my kite fly away <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/michaelwyszomierski\/LetSGoFlyAKite\/photo#5230502696998602242\">into a tree<\/a>. And Koklynn&#8217;s kite got attacked by a huge kiteboarding kite, which Nelson had to go relaunch. Overall, I&#8217;d call the event a success. Thanks Char (kite expert) for organizing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year at Google&#8217;s annual Summer Picnic, we all got our own kites as a gift, because Google is cool like that. We ran them through some extensive flight testing today at the kite flying area in Shoreline Park. After a tip from a kiteboarder to add more material to the tail, we had them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/08\/lets-go-fly-a-kite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let&#8217;s go fly a kite<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3324,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/3324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}