{"id":266,"date":"2008-07-17T14:17:50","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T18:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=266"},"modified":"2014-07-18T19:15:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T19:15:26","slug":"pipa-in-floripa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/pipa-in-floripa\/","title":{"rendered":"Pipa in Floripa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Yamazato, a retired Brazilian engineer, may have finished his career but he still has big dreams&#8211;<em>pipa<\/em> dreams. Next week, he hopes to break the record for launching the largest high-flying kite in the\u00a0Guinness Book of World Records. He built a kite measuring 1,225 square meters, which he plans to fly sometime next week, after three days without rain.<\/p>\n<form>Yamazato has always been a fan of kites. He&#8217;s been all over Brazil, teaching\u00a0math and science based on traditional kitemaking, and\u00a0started kitemaking workshops three years ago. He already won the world record for largest kite train, flying a\u00a0chain of 3,344 kites, and constructed and successfully flew a smaller version of his new kite, which was\u00a0481 square meters.<\/form>\n<p>Yamazato&#8217;s plan is to launch the\u00a0<em>megapipa<\/em> (huge kite)\u00a0forty meters into the air for twenty minutes in the southern city of Florian\u00f3polis, with the help of the Santa Catarina Japanese Association.<\/p>\n<p>To see a photo of the <em>pipa<\/em>, see the Globo coverage <a href=\"http:\/\/g1.globo.com\/Noticias\/Brasil\/0,,MUL648540-5598,00-ENGENHEIRO+TENTA+EMPINAR+PIPA+DE+M+EM+SC.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Yamazato, a retired Brazilian engineer, may have finished his career but he still has big dreams&#8211;pipa dreams. Next week, he hopes to break the record for launching the largest high-flying kite in the\u00a0Guinness Book of World Records. He built a kite measuring 1,225 square meters, which he plans to fly sometime next week, after&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/pipa-in-floripa\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1845],"tags":[2250],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-brazilian-news","tag-kite"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5491,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/5491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}