{"id":3144,"date":"2006-02-21T18:10:38","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T01:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3144"},"modified":"2006-02-21T18:10:38","modified_gmt":"2006-02-22T01:10:38","slug":"plane-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2006\/02\/21\/plane-speaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Plane Speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in DC this week.  I flew in yesterday.  As the plane left the ground  the stewardess came on the intercom and told us that this would be the captain&#8217;s last flight, and he would be retiring tomorrow.  <em>Not<\/em> comforting.  I&#8217;ve seen enough cop movies to know what will happens to the the grizzled old veteran (and presumably everyone on the grizzled old veteran&#8217;s plane) when someone mentions, in the first act, that it&#8217;s his last day on the job before retirement.<\/p>\n<p>I had a window seat above the wing.  On the engine I could see a red circle, with a pictogram of a man inside it and a line crossing him out.  I wasn&#8217;t sure if this was to warn people from getting too close, or if the captain was an ex-WWII ace and was keeping a record of his kills.<\/p>\n<p>Also:  I must be getting old, because I now firmly of the opinion that members of a flight crew should not refer to one another as &#8220;bro.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in DC this week. I flew in yesterday. As the plane left the ground the stewardess came on the intercom and told us that this would be the captain&#8217;s last flight, and he would be retiring tomorrow. Not comforting. I&#8217;ve seen enough cop movies to know what will happens to the the grizzled old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}