{"id":23794,"date":"2023-11-21T10:26:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T09:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/240-years-since-pilatre-de-rozier-made-history\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T10:26:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T09:26:43","slug":"240-years-since-pilatre-de-rozier-made-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/blog\/2023\/11\/240-years-since-pilatre-de-rozier-made-history\/","title":{"rendered":"240 years since Pil\u00e2tre de Rozier made history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Paris, November 21, 1783, 11:00 a.m. Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Pil\u00e2tre de Rozier, a native of Metz (Moselle), and the Marquis d&#8217;Arlandes took to the skies in a hot-air balloon, opening the way to human flight. On December 1, physicist Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers took to the skies in a hydrogen-filled free balloon. It is only six months since brothers Etienne and Joseph Montgolfier developed the hot-air balloon from Annonay (Ard\u00e8che). The world soon heard the news that the French had succeeded in flying. It&#8217;s been 240 years since the passion for lighter-than-air has shone through the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris, November 21, 1783, 11:00 a.m. Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Pil\u00e2tre de Rozier, a native of Metz (Moselle), and the Marquis d&#8217;Arlandes took to the skies in a hot-air balloon, opening the way to human flight. On December 1, physicist Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers took to the skies in a hydrogen-filled free balloon. It is only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23797,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23794\/revisions\/23797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}