{"id":847,"date":"2009-06-12T08:23:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T12:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=847"},"modified":"2015-12-27T14:35:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T19:35:43","slug":"balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2009\/06\/balloons\/","title":{"rendered":"Balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These modern day &#8220;art&#8221; balloons seemed appropriate to post for a Friday. I really liked this one of Van Gogh and the castle. Pretty cool. Since these were emailed to me, I&#8217;m not sure of the web source but it may be from this site: <a title=\"Hot Air Balloons\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uphaa.com\/blog\/index.php\/air-balloon\/\">http:\/\/www.uphaa.com\/blog\/index.php\/air-balloon\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/06\/picture-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-848\" title=\"Van Gogh Hot Air Balloon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/06\/picture-2.png\" alt=\"Van Gogh Hot Air Balloon\" width=\"355\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/picture-2.png 355w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/picture-2-196x300.png 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/06\/picture-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-849\" title=\"Castle Hot Air Balloon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/06\/picture-1.png\" alt=\"Castle Hot Air Balloon\" width=\"358\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/picture-1.png 358w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/picture-1-198x300.png 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an update to my previous post on <a title=\"Preivous Post on Coney Island\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=772\" target=\"_blank\">Coney Island<\/a>. Seems like the Smithsonian has acquired a piece of its history with the <a title=\"A Star is Reborn by Jacqueline Trescott Washington Post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/06\/04\/AR2009060404211.html\" target=\"_blank\">Star from Astroland<\/a> &#8212; another fun up-in-the-air thing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/06\/ph2009060404214.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-851\" title=\"Coney Island, Astroland. Photo by Charles Denson via Washingtong Post\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/06\/ph2009060404214.jpg\" alt=\"Coney Island, Astroland. 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