{"id":738,"date":"2008-11-30T21:03:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T05:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=738"},"modified":"2008-11-30T21:03:33","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T05:03:33","slug":"obligatory-air-travel-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/11\/obligatory-air-travel-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Obligatory air travel post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eh, nothing exciting, so let&#8217;s just get this out of the way:<\/p>\n<p>From SFO to PHL a United attendant used the phrase &#8220;as quickly as feasibly possible.&#8221; That&#8217;s redundantly repetitive.<\/p>\n<p>US Airways no longer shows movies on domestic flights. Fortunately, this also means (at least in my experience) the end of the annoying\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/hotw\/iblog\/C1020803948\/E20061010213018\/\">inescapable commercials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The tray table ad at my seat on a US Airways flight from PHL to SFO was upside-down. I wonder if that made it cheaper for the advertiser.<\/p>\n<p>A page in US Airways Magazine dubbed a Las Vegas restaurant as &#8220;Chicago&#8217;s favorite Las Vegas Italian restaurant.&#8221; I&#8217;m sure that both the citizens of Las Vegas and the Italians are honored.<\/p>\n<p>One of the flight attendants kept telling people to &#8220;boot down&#8221; their computers.<\/p>\n<p>The flight attendants kept entering the cockpit on their own and breaking the snack cart barrier rule.<\/p>\n<p>I left the airport in a taxi and gave the driver directions as I read from Google Maps on my iPhone. I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s how it should work.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s my driving back from the airport persona or if it&#8217;s just a little bit of the East Coast wearing off, but every time I drive back to my apartment after a trip I am faster than usual.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, that&#8217;s it. Happier blog posts to come starting tomorrow. I have an idea for a new series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eh, nothing exciting, so let&#8217;s just get this out of the way: From SFO to PHL a United attendant used the phrase &#8220;as quickly as feasibly possible.&#8221; That&#8217;s redundantly repetitive. US Airways no longer shows movies on domestic flights. Fortunately, this also means (at least in my experience) the end of the annoying\u00a0inescapable commercials. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/11\/obligatory-air-travel-post\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obligatory air travel post<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}