{"id":128,"date":"2015-01-13T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/?p=128"},"modified":"2015-01-15T14:29:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T14:29:39","slug":"intro_caitlintrafton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/intro_caitlintrafton\/","title":{"rendered":"intro_caitlintrafton"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SKY_X.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-136 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SKY_X-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"SKY_X\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SKY_X-300x204.jpg 300w, http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SKY_X-1024x697.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SKY_X.jpg 1542w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>I went down to Orange, Massachusetts, it was my twenty-first birthday and my stepfather, Todd, told me he\u2019d buy me a ticket to go skydiving. Can\u2019t remember what I was wearing for shoes; but the dude behind the counter pointed at my feet and said,<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThose shoes will fall off.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A friendly onlooker peered through the top of her sunglasses, and back to the sky. She held a grocery bag with a pair of sneakers,<\/p>\n<p>\u201dTake mine, I couldn\u2019t go, I chickened out. Keep Them, I won\u2019t use them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They were 2 \u00bd sizes too small.<\/p>\n<p>JUMPSUIT\/ZIP UP\/HELMET, <em>\u201cClimb aboard, You want to pull the cord?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I said, <em>\u201cYa\u201d<\/em> and my Guide strapped me to his chest like a \u2018Baby Carlos\u2019 front-pack.<\/p>\n<p>Up we went-ears popping all the way-pins and needles prickling every inch of skin. 13,000 feet: one single skydiver opened up the door. With one last look: he smiles, and falls out left-side-down. One-By-One we fall out; our Guides pushed us closer the front.<\/p>\n<p>Whether I liked it or not, my Guide pushed me to the lip of the doorway,<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cReady, Set, GO!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We Somersaulted, my heart halted for two seconds of freefalling. The last thing they saw of me was the purple of my socks; embroidered with I Heart Jesus, nine and a half\u2019s crammed in a size seven Reebok.<a href=\"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-132 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/443.nmdprojects.net\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/1.jpg\" alt=\"-1\" width=\"101\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went down to Orange, Massachusetts, it was my twenty-first birthday and my stepfather, Todd, told me he\u2019d buy me a ticket to go skydiving. 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