{"id":60490,"date":"2015-06-21T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60490"},"modified":"2015-06-21T09:14:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T13:14:04","slug":"its-good-to-have-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60490","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s good to have friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=60491\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60491\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Parachutist-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"Parachutist\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Parachutist-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Parachutist.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Andy11M sends us a link to the story of two members of the Red Devils British parachute team, one of whom had trouble with his parachute and the other rescued him;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Red Devils display team was performing Friday at the Whitehaven Airshow in northwestern England. Eyewitness Lucy Milne told the BBC on Saturday that spectators watched aghast as one of the men frantically kicking before his teammate rescued him.<\/p>\n<p>A message posted on the show&#8217;s Facebook page assured spectators that both were fine after &#8220;one team member caught his teammate and brought him into Queens Dock.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The parachutists landed in water and were plucked to safety.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2015\/jun\/20\/red-devils-members-moment-parachute-failed-whitehaven-air-show\">The Guardian<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Corporals Wayne Shorthouse, 32, and Mike French, 34, faced catastrophe as they tried to perform a stacking display at Whitehaven Air Show. The drama ended with Shorthouse wrapping his legs inside the ropes of his colleague\u2019s deflated parachute and guiding him to the safety of the town\u2019s Queens Dock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were giggling as we hit the water, and then we just paddled to the side and went off for pie and peas and a pint together,\u201d said French.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.theguardian.com\/embed\/video\/uk-news\/video\/2015\/jun\/20\/red-devils-describe-life-saving-manoeuvre-after-parachute-failure\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy11M sends us a link to the story of two members of the Red Devils British &hellip; <a title=\"It&#8217;s good to have friends\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60490\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s good to have friends<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}