{"id":15958,"date":"2022-05-12T17:23:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T15:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebridge.sk\/?p=15958"},"modified":"2022-05-12T17:30:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T15:30:21","slug":"ross-maxwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebridge.sk\/en\/ross-maxwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross Maxwell &#8211; an adventurer from New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has represented New Zealand in skydiving, fought the cold in the Arctic or saw the Egyptian pyramids from the air. He would say he\u00b4s just an ordinary bloke, but challenges have always inspired him to take the Kiwi approach of giving it a go.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listen to the latest podcast, in which we talk with him. Worksheets are of course available. 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Listen to the latest podcast, in which we talk with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thebridge.sk\/en\/ross-maxwell\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":15953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ross Maxwell - an adventurer from New Zealand - The Bridge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thebridge.sk\/en\/ross-maxwell\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ross Maxwell - an adventurer from New Zealand - The Bridge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"He has represented New Zealand in skydiving, fought the cold in the Arctic or saw the Egyptian pyramids from the air. 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