{"id":72297,"date":"2026-04-21T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/hot-air-balloon-carrying-13-people-lands-in-california-back-yard-out-of-a-fairytale\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T12:00:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:00:55","slug":"hot-air-balloon-carrying-13-people-lands-in-california-back-yard-out-of-a-fairytale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/hot-air-balloon-carrying-13-people-lands-in-california-back-yard-out-of-a-fairytale\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot-air balloon carrying 13 people lands in California back yard: \u2018out of a fairytale\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pilot made emergency landing on small plot of grass at Temecula home amid low fuel and shifting winds<\/p>\n<p>A balloon landed in a southern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\">California<\/a> back yard \u2013 a balloon with 13 people.<\/p>\n<p>The enormous hot-air balloon, with a pilot and passengers in the basket, descended perfectly on Saturday on a small plot of grass at a home in Temecula. Hunter Perrin said he had no idea that he had visitors until a neighbor alerted him.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/21\/california-hot-air-balloon-lands-13-people\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilot made emergency landing on small plot of grass at Temecula home amid low fuel and shifting winds A balloon landed in a southern California back yard \u2013 a balloon with 13 people. The enormous hot-air balloon, with a pilot and passengers in the basket, descended perfectly on Saturday on a small plot of grass &#8230; <a title=\"Hot-air balloon carrying 13 people lands in California back yard: \u2018out of a fairytale\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/hot-air-balloon-carrying-13-people-lands-in-california-back-yard-out-of-a-fairytale\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hot-air balloon carrying 13 people lands in California back yard: \u2018out of a fairytale\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}