{"id":2360,"date":"2021-05-14T13:45:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T20:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2021-05-14T13:45:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T20:45:46","slug":"death-of-adelaide-bassett-parachutist-1895-peterborough-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/death-of-adelaide-bassett-parachutist-1895-peterborough-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of Adelaide Bassett, Parachutist, 1895, Peterborough, England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She was the wife of Henry Bassett. I have not yet identified Henry Bassett.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The West Australian, Wednesday, 7 August 1895<br \/>\nTerrible Death of a Parachutist<br \/>\nAn Awful Jump<br \/>\nWitnessed by Thousands of People<\/p>\n<p>London, August 6. A terrible death has befallen Adelaide Bassett, a parachutist, at Peterborough, in Huntingdonshire.<\/p>\n<p>Coming in contact with a telegraph wire the parachute was injured during the ascent of the balloon. Realising this, Bassett jumped from the balloon when it was about 60 feet from the ground, and falling on her head was killed instantly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/adelaide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2357\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/adelaide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/adelaide.jpg 286w, https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/adelaide-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was the wife of Henry Bassett. I have not yet identified Henry Bassett. The West Australian, Wednesday, 7 August 1895 Terrible Death of a Parachutist An Awful Jump Witnessed by Thousands of People London, August 6. A terrible death &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/death-of-adelaide-bassett-parachutist-1895-peterborough-england\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}