{"id":1830,"date":"2009-07-24T16:19:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T16:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/24\/in-flight_news\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T12:35:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T20:35:30","slug":"in-flight_news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/24\/in-flight_news\/","title":{"rendered":"In-flight news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I\u2019m posting from an airplane,<\/strong> <i>just because I can<\/i>. Every once in a while, it actually feels like I live in the 21st century. In-flight internet access \u2014 even for a fee \u2014 is the one bright spot in my domestic flights around the US. The Atlanta and Orlando airports? Dreadful chaos. Mumbly, crabby security guys working the lines at the x-ray machine? Punchable. Children? The less said the better. Food? <i>What food?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Actually, there are peanuts. However, there are also new developments of hysterical overreaction while traveling: They won&#8217;t serve peanuts in rows 25\u201331 on my flight because there&#8217;s a person in row 28 with a nut allergy. Apparently aggravated by floating nut particles in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>One other travel observation: flying with my pal Emma makes me glad that I\u2019m not pretty, young, and a girl with a charming foreign accent. People always want to chat! I was barely able to handle the over-attentive waiters in the South. Flirty busybodies on a plane would push me over the edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m posting from an airplane, just because I can. Every once in a while, it actually feels like I live in the 21st century. In-flight internet access \u2014 even for a fee \u2014 is the one bright spot in my domestic flights around the US. The Atlanta and Orlando airports? Dreadful chaos. Mumbly, crabby security &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/24\/in-flight_news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In-flight news&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77182,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/77182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}