{"id":331,"date":"2003-10-07T19:28:30","date_gmt":"2003-10-07T22:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=331"},"modified":"2003-10-07T19:28:30","modified_gmt":"2003-10-07T22:28:30","slug":"ter-land-ter-zee-en-in-de-lucht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Ter Land, Ter Zee en In de Lucht"},"content":{"rendered":"

D<\/span>on’t break your tongue on that last word. It means ‘air’, or better yet, ‘sky’. Today, The Gothamist comes with another item<\/a> that reminds of something of the past. Red Bull’s ‘FlugTag’<\/a>. It’s a game to ‘launch human-powered objects off a barge and keep it in the air as long as one can’.\n<\/p>\n

30 years ago, a Dutch broadcaster (TROS) started a (Summer) TV series called ‘Ter Land, Ter Zee en In de Lucht’, where people are challenged to do basically the same<\/a> (Dutch), and naturally make fools of themselves<\/a> (Dutch). Actually, there were different challenges, as the title says and roughly translates into ‘At Land, at Sea and in the Sky’: sometimes participants goal was to keep driving (in whatever self-made vehicle) for the longest time on a small plank. Sometimes the idea was to drift for the longest time. Or flying, like in Red Bull’s ‘FlugTag’.\n<\/p>\n

When we were little kids, we thought it was great fun. It surprises me that the program still exists. But then, of course<\/em> it still does: How can you ever wipe out thirty years of entertainment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t break your tongue on that last word. It means ‘air’, or better yet, ‘sky’. Today, The Gothamist comes with another item that reminds of something of the past. Red Bull’s ‘FlugTag’. It’s a game to ‘launch human-powered objects off … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}