{"id":2295,"date":"2024-03-11T09:56:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T13:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startskydiving.previewthe.site\/?post_type=teammember&#038;p=2295"},"modified":"2024-03-11T09:56:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T13:56:38","slug":"thomas-birdwell","status":"publish","type":"teammember","link":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/team-member\/thomas-birdwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Birdwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Name<\/h5>\n<p>Thomas Birdwell<\/p>\n<h5>What are your PRIMARY roles at the DZ?<\/h5>\n<p>Pilot<\/p>\n<h5>How many years in the sport\/industry?<\/h5>\n<p>9<\/p>\n<h5>When you were a kid, were there any early activities that might indicate you&#8217;d one day become a skydiver?<\/h5>\n<p>General thrill \/ risk seeking<\/p>\n<h5>What was the circumstance that led you to make your very first skydive?<\/h5>\n<p>Brothers birthday<\/p>\n<h5>What made you want to continue skydiving after your first jump?<\/h5>\n<p>Chasing that feeling<\/p>\n<h5>What&#8217;s the best \/ most memorable skydive you&#8217;ve ever made, and what made it so remarkable?<\/h5>\n<p>Shortly after becoming licensed exiting solo and tracking through a small hole in the clouds. The feeling of freedom it gave me and the awesome sight picture and speed sensation or falling by the clouds.<\/p>\n<h5>If you have one, what&#8217;s your personal motto \/ philosophy as it relates to skydiving?<\/h5>\n<p>At the end of the day it\u2019s your life on the line. So you need to make sure you\u2019re making responsible informed decisions and have the information necessary to make your jump safe. It\u2019s tempting to rely on others but no one will be as invested in keeping you safe as you are.<\/p>\n<h5>What three words would your colleagues \/ students use to describe you as a skydiver?<\/h5>\n<p>Safe, sick, &amp; sexy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"menu_order":0,"template":"","teammember-category":[16],"class_list":["post-2295","teammember","type-teammember","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teammember\/2295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teammember"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/teammember"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teammember\/2295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3797,"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teammember\/2295\/revisions\/3797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"teammember-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teammember-category?post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}