{"id":285,"date":"2005-01-19T02:16:03","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T09:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=285"},"modified":"2005-03-02T09:07:10","modified_gmt":"2005-03-02T16:07:10","slug":"awaiting-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"Awaiting Departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boarding has started and the flight is scheduled to leave in 40 minutes.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m in seat 3E; middle two seats, aisle, right side. The flight doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\nlook to be very full. In this Business Class section that seats 36 there<br \/>\nare 9 of us. A couple more will join later in the boarding process but<br \/>\nnevertheless it won&#8217;t likely be more than half full.<\/p>\n<p>The scheduled flying time is 9:43, which is a bit longer than normal. We<br \/>\nmust have some serious headwinds to contend with. The woman seated next to<br \/>\nme has arrived and has put her stuff away. Another 5 Business Class<br \/>\npassengers have arrived as well. She just loaded up on pills and may have a<br \/>\ncold. Dang!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve introduced ourselves. No cold, just some allergies. The front door is<br \/>\nclosing. We&#8217;ve 21 people in Business class. We&#8217;re not scheduled to leave<br \/>\nfor 20 munutes, but are going to start early. I like it!<\/p>\n<p> &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boarding has started and the flight is scheduled to leave in 40 minutes. I&#8217;m in seat 3E; middle two seats, aisle, right side. The flight doesn&#8217;t look to be very full. In this Business Class section that seats 36 there are 9 of us. A couple more will join later in the boarding process but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=285\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Awaiting Departure<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-mail-musings","category-travels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-4B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}