{"id":11452,"date":"2014-09-30T21:07:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T21:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=11452"},"modified":"2014-09-30T21:07:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T21:07:47","slug":"thanks-for-my-wings-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=11452","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for my wings, Scott…….."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sometime in my youth my father taught me, “if you want to be a success in life, help others make their dreams come true.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Today I lost a dear friend, Scott Hughes.\u00a0 Scott taught me to fly powered parachutes, and I never saw anyone who could fly them quite like he could.\u00a0 Today he is flying freer and higher than ever before.\u00a0 My dream since childhood was to be a pilot, and I wanted to learn to fly everything that went into the air!\u00a0 A lot of that dream came true, and Scott was big part of it. Scott sponsored Mark Kettenhofen and I when we did the second America from 500 Feet book.\u00a0 I will always cherish the time we had in Wharton with him, the flying community won’t be the same.<\/p>\n

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I miss flying every day, but I’ll miss it more now!\u00a0 Thanks for my wings Scott, safe landings my friend, you deserve it!<\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n

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Photo Note Image by Mark Alberhasky, of me flying the Predator PPC that Scott designed and built for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Sometime in my youth my father taught me, “if you want to be a success in life, help others make their dreams come true.”   Today I lost a dear friend, Scott Hughes.\u00a0 Scott taught me to fly powered parachutes, and I never saw anyone who could fly them quite like he could.\u00a0 Today […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11454,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11452\/revisions\/11454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}