{"id":2933,"date":"2008-07-05T12:32:40","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T17:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/07\/05\/body-of-balloon-priest-found\/"},"modified":"2008-07-05T12:32:40","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T17:32:40","slug":"body-of-balloon-priest-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/07\/body-of-balloon-priest-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of &quot;balloon priest&quot; found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article\">Rio de Janeiro  &#8211; The body of &#8220;flying priest&#8221; balloon adventurer Adelir de Carli has been recovered some 100 kilometres off the Brazilian coast, local media reports said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Father de Carli went missing in April while attempting to fly with 1,000 helium-filled party balloons tied to a chair. The body was recovered by a tugboat crew off Rio de Janeiro state, reports said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said clothing, a rucksack and shoes left little doubt that the body was that of the priest. DNA tests would be conducted to provide final proof. <\/p>\n<p>Father de Carli, 42, had set out on April 20 on what was planned to be a 20-hour flight from the town of Paranagua, in the state of Parana, to Dourados, in neighbouring Mato Grosso do Sul, to break a 19-hour world record and &#8220;to promote religion,&#8221; as he put it.<\/p>\n<p>He had also been seeking to raise money to build a chapel and to contribute to the cause of long-distance lorry drivers demanding longer breaks..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topnews.in\/body-flying-priest-balloon-adventurer-recovered-brazil-251214\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px solid ; width: 76px; height: 26px;\" alt=\"Article\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/article.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rio de Janeiro &#8211; The body of &#8220;flying priest&#8221; balloon adventurer Adelir de Carli has been recovered some 100 kilometres off the Brazilian coast, local media reports said Saturday. Father&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}