{"id":7402,"date":"2017-06-29T19:04:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T23:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/?p=7402"},"modified":"2017-06-29T19:10:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T23:10:31","slug":"overcoming-fears-can-bring-a-rush-of-satisfaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/2017\/06\/29\/overcoming-fears-can-bring-a-rush-of-satisfaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming fear can bring a rush of satisfaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width:500px;height:350px;\" data-ps-embed-type=\"slideshow\" data-ps-embed-gid=\"G0000PxNiwgtH97A\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe point of maximum danger is the point of minimum fear,\u201caccording to a popular Will Smith quote.<\/p>\n<p> Living that favorite quote, Sgt. Blake Gaynor of the United States Army Golden Knights Parachute Team stands at the edge of a Fokker C-31A Troopship door, bracing against the turbulence before leaping 12,500 feet. Golden Knights have performed more than 17,000 shows around the world, like last weekend\u2019s Shop &#8216;n Save Westmoreland County Airshow at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really enjoy the peacefulness of jumping out of an airplane,\u201d said Gaynor of Dallas. \u201cOnce you get out there, it\u2019s just you, the elements, mother nature and your parachute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After a two month grueling selection process and hundreds of free falls Sgt. Gaynor earn a spot, along with 82 current members, on the of the Golden Knights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just needed to do something more with my life\u2026working cash registers really wasn\u2019t for me,\u201d said Gaynor.. \u201cI just needed the sense of adventure that the Army has really been able to gratify for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even a fear of heights did not stop Sgt. Gaynor from pursing his dream. He described his emotions leading up to his first jump as \u201cterrifying.<\/p>\n<p>But once he reached his maximum point of danger, he said he felt at peace soaring through the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>As his blue eyes widened, Sgt. Gaynor said, \u201cFew things in life are quite as gratifying as overcoming one of your fears.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe point of maximum danger is the point of minimum fear.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":7413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[300],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/06\/20170625scGoldenKnightsInFocus05SS2.jpg?fit=4500%2C2687&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7402"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7416,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions\/7416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7402"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}