{"id":1991,"date":"2019-03-24T13:24:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T17:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2019-03-24T13:24:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T17:24:27","slug":"stolen-hot-air-ballon-from-indiana-found-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2019\/03\/24\/stolen-hot-air-ballon-from-indiana-found-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen hot air ballon from Indiana found in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

SUMMERFIELD, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Florida authorities have recovered a hot air balloon stolen from its owner in Indiana.<\/p>\n

The Marion County Sheriff’s Office got a tip Saturday from police in Bloomington, Indiana, that the stolen balloon had been spotted at The Villages Hot Air Balloon Festival.<\/p>\n

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That tip wasn’t full of hot air. In a Facebook post, the sheriff’s office said deputies found the multicolored balloon with a grid pattern while checking other balloons participating in the three-day event in Summerfield.<\/p>\n

The sheriff’s office said the owner did not want to press charges and just wanted his balloon back.<\/p>\n

A tow company was called to pick up the balloon so that it could be returned to its owner.<\/p>\n

The sheriff’s office said it was the first balloon investigation in the agency’s 175-year history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SUMMERFIELD, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Florida authorities have recovered a hot air balloon stolen from its owner in Indiana. The Marion County Sheriff’s Office got a tip Saturday from police in Bloomington, Indiana, that the stolen balloon had been spotted at The Villages Hot Air Balloon Festival. That tip wasn’t full of hot air. In a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1992,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions\/1992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}