{"id":547,"date":"2007-01-29T16:44:43","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T16:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2007\/01\/29\/kite-flying-at-nti\/"},"modified":"2007-01-29T16:44:43","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T16:44:43","slug":"kite-flying-at-nti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2007\/01\/29\/kite-flying-at-nti\/","title":{"rendered":"Kite flying at NTI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I brought a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flexifoil.com\/\">Flexifoil<\/a> Sting 1.2 kite back to Nigeria with me in November (that&#8217;s a fairly small power kite, 1.2 square metres).  I&#8217;ve not had much of a chance to fly it due to lack of wind or other things to do.<\/p>\n<p>Today I finally had the time and the wind was strong enough, so I wandered over to the NTI Staff Primary school football pitch and unpacked the kite.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/NTI\/Kite29Jan07\/MeFlyingKite_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/NTI\/Kite29Jan07\/MeFlyingKite_t.jpg\" alt=\"Me holding kite handles, the kite is visible directly in front of me.\" title=\"Me flying my kite.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/NTI\/Kite29Jan07\/SuleimanFlyingKite_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/NTI\/Kite29Jan07\/SuleimanFlyingKite_t.jpg\" alt=\"A boy flying a kite.\" title=\"Suleiman flying the kite.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/NTI\/Kite29Jan07\/FrenchTeacherFlyingKite2_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/NTI\/Kite29Jan07\/FrenchTeacherFlyingKite2_t.jpg\" alt=\"A man flying a kite\" title=\"The French teacher flying the kite, with onlookers.\" \/><\/a><!--more--><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s me flying the kite on the left, in the middle is Suleiman, a boy who lives in the junior staff quarters at NTI.  On the right is the French teacher from the NTI Staff primary school.<\/p>\n<p>Suleiman and his friends seem quite keen, they&#8217;re quickly picking up how to control the kite.  I&#8217;ve promised them that I&#8217;ll leave it with them when I return to the UK, which was my plan all along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I brought a Flexifoil Sting 1.2 kite back to Nigeria with me in November (that&#8217;s a fairly small power kite, 1.2 square metres). I&#8217;ve not had much of a chance to fly it due to lack of wind or other things to do. Today I finally had the time and the wind was strong enough, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}