{"id":45885,"date":"2018-09-19T01:25:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T19:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=45885"},"modified":"2018-09-19T01:25:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T19:55:17","slug":"papu-valley-to-host-paragliding-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/09\/19\/papu-valley-to-host-paragliding-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Papu Valley to host paragliding festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Sep 18:<\/strong> A paragliding festival will be held for the first time in Arunachal Pradesh at Lumdung (Pappu Valley) in East Kameng district from November 17 to 19.<br \/>\n&#8220;The event aims to generate awareness and interest among the youths of Arunachal Pradesh in paragliding,&#8221; informed Paragliding Association of Arunachal (PAA) president Vijay Sonam.<br \/>\n&#8220;Many experienced pilots from the country and abroad are expected to take part in the festival,&#8221; said Sonam.<br \/>\nHe said paragliding was included as a sports event in the just-concluded Asian Games in Jakarta. &#8220;Paragliding has also been recognized by the International Olympic Association as a sport, and it is expected to be an event in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nFormer MP Tapir Gao on Monday launched the website of the Arunachal Paragliding Festival in a function here.<br \/>\n&#8220;It (website) is on air now and interested pilots can register for participation in the festival,&#8221; Sonam said.<br \/>\nThe festival is being organised by the PAA in collaboration with the youth affairs and the tourism departments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Sep 18: A paragliding festival will be held for the first time in Arunachal Pradesh at Lumdung (Pappu Valley) in East Kameng district from November 17 to 19. &#8220;The event aims to generate awareness and interest among the youths of Arunachal Pradesh in paragliding,&#8221; informed Paragliding Association of Arunachal (PAA) president Vijay Sonam. &#8220;Many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-45885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}