{"id":498,"date":"2010-03-11T09:14:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T13:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedockchurch.org\/blog\/?p=498"},"modified":"2010-06-15T07:21:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T11:21:09","slug":"taking-a-leap-eventually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/2010\/taking-a-leap-eventually\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a Leap&#8230; Eventually!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disaster!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->For all of you expecting to enjoy watching me plunge to my doom on Saturday at the Titanic Leap, I have some bad news&#8230;! \u00a0The gadget which was going to be used to stop us Leapers from splatting to a messy end on the stones of the Thompson Dock has been stolen! (I know! \u00a0Who steals a PowerFan?! \u00a0Apparently it was being transported to an event in England and the lorry got nicked!)<\/p>\n<p>So as I see it I have two options:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedockchurch.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/D30_9833.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"499\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/2010\/taking-a-leap-eventually\/d30_9833\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/D30_9833.jpg?fit=2852%2C4304&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2852,4304\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;14&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D300&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1267644020&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;26&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"My home-made Titanic Leap\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/D30_9833.jpg?fit=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/D30_9833.jpg?fit=678%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-499\" title=\"My home-made Titanic Leap\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedockchurch.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/D30_9833-198x300.jpg?resize=198%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/D30_9833.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/D30_9833.jpg?resize=678%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 678w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/D30_9833.jpg?w=1880&amp;ssl=1 1880w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/D30_9833.jpg?w=2820&amp;ssl=1 2820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>1. \u00a0Get a crane somewhere on a building site to randomly chuck me into the air and see what happens<\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p>2. \u00a0Accept that the Titanic Leap will have to be rescheduled &#8211; the date suggested at the moment is <strong>Saturday 19th June <\/strong>&#8211; by which time there will be (theoretically, hopefully!) a shiny new Powerfan to catch me when I fall.<\/p>\n<p>Habitat For Humanity have suggested just extending the fundraising process (so I&#8217;ve updated my JustGiving page&#8217;s expiry date accordingly) &#8211; and I hope that any of you who sponsored me (or were thinking of sponsoring me) for this Saturday will be happy to do the same on the new date!<\/p>\n<p>So apologies to all you car-crash junkies who were hoping to mock my fear on Saturday morning. \u00a0I&#8217;ll probably sleep better on Friday night now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disaster!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chris-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Taking a Leap... 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