{"id":3055,"date":"2022-09-26T15:22:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T22:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2022-09-26T15:22:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T22:22:45","slug":"max-hook-of-el-dorado-hills-becomes-californias-youngest-skydiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/09\/26\/max-hook-of-el-dorado-hills-becomes-californias-youngest-skydiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Hook of El Dorado Hills Becomes California&#8217;s Youngest Skydiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Author: Luke Cleary, ABC10<\/pre>\n<p>(PLACERVILLE, CALIFORNIA) Sept 26, 2022 \u2014 EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. \u2014 An eight year old from El Dorado Hills became California&#8217;s youngest skydiver Saturday, when the Jackson Elementary third grader jumped from 7500 feet with his instructor over Delta, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was expecting it to be scarier,&#8221; said Max Hook, who spoke to ABC10 alongside his father, Chris Hook.<\/p>\n<p>Max described freefall as feeling like &#8220;being sucked up by a tornado,&#8221; and the descent as being like a &#8220;real-life simulation of Google Earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A handheld video taken by the instructor shows his leap and several large smiles for the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Chris said Ultimate Skydiving Adventures in Delta, Colorado was the only place he was aware of that would accept skydivers who were minors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We figured that Max would be the youngest from Sacramento \u2014 and when we got there and they checked the list,&#8221; Chris said. &#8220;They confirmed he&#8217;s actually the youngest from from California.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Max said he recommended the experience, but plans to up the ante next year with base jumping in Moab, Utah.<\/p>\n<p>VIDEO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc10.com\/article\/news\/local\/8-year-old-californias-youngest-skydiver\/103-2f20a331-a2fe-460d-a4fb-d6bf82b44eba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.abc10.com\/article\/news\/local\/8-year-old-californias-youngest-skydiver\/103-2f20a331-a2fe-460d-a4fb-d6bf82b44eba<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Hook, 8-years-old and a resident of El Dorado Hills, became California\u2019s youngest skydiver, jumping from 7500 ft with his instructor over Delta, CO, Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3057,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions\/3057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}