{"id":372419,"date":"2013-06-03T23:01:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T22:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/?p=372419"},"modified":"2013-06-03T23:01:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T22:01:08","slug":"local-gliding-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/?p=372419","title":{"rendered":"LOCAL GLIDING CLUB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/glider1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-372428\" alt=\"glider1\" src=\"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/glider1-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Haslingfield is fortunate in being only 20 minutes from one of the country\u2019s premier gliding clubs, and we have several village residents who are club members.<br \/>\nGliding is a form of flight that is both beautiful and exciting. \u00a0Nothing can quite match the thrill of flying silently, giving a birds-eye view over the surrounding countryside of Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and beyond. \u00a0Gliders from Gransden Lodge Airfield often fly two or three hundred miles on a good day.<br \/>\n<!--more-->Gliding is a sport that is genuinely open to all; the club has members who learn to fly from the age of 14, through to those <a href=\"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/glider2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-372429\" alt=\"glider2\" src=\"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/glider2-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>who take up the sport on retirement. \u00a0It\u2019s an exciting and sociable way to learn to fly, and it\u2019s a sport which provides an opportunity to keep on learning. \u00a0Having said that, it\u2019s not difficult \u2013 \u00a0if you can drive a car, you can almost certainly learn to fly a glider. \u00a0Training is available during the day on seven days a week in the summer, and on several evenings.<br \/>\nIf you are at all interested in learning, we\u2019d love to see you at the club to have a look round. \u00a0Give us a call on 01767 677077 and say when you\u2019d like to come; then we\u2019ll arrange someone to meet you. \u00a0See www.glide.co.uk for more details.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haslingfield is fortunate in being only 20 minutes from one of the country\u2019s premier gliding clubs, and we have several village residents who are club members. Gliding is a form of flight that is both beautiful and exciting. \u00a0Nothing can quite match the thrill of flying silently, giving a birds-eye view over the surrounding countryside &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/?p=372419\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LOCAL GLIDING CLUB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372419"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}