{"id":24,"date":"2015-12-21T15:25:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T20:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2015-12-22T16:08:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T21:08:23","slug":"04-8-23-00-flight-815-to-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"04: 8-23-00 Flight 815 to Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flight 815 to Sydney<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>8\/23\/00<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wednesday<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10:40 PM CT<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sitting at the tarmac, waiting on a connecting flight, flights? \u00a0Anyhow, the missionary fellow is in the seat next to me, and a screaming toddler is behind me. \u00a0The flight just got longer. \u00a0But this cat next to me is an interesting fellow: about my age, from Brazil, spent 3 mo in Perth, a month or two in Africa, back to Perth \u00a0&amp; now he\u2019s going to Sydney for \u2013 a while. \u00a0I forget how long. \u00a0Should get his name too.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well I jumped from one airplane seat to another. \u00a0No layover in LA. \u00a0Had time to hit the head &amp; that was it. \u00a0And this <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> going to be a long flight: the menu includes a choice of glazed chicken, lasagna, or chilled beef Wellington, dessert, a mid-flight snack, and bacon &amp; eggs prior to arrival!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And did I mention that this was a big Bird? \u00a0747. \u00a0Flew from Chicago on a 757. \u00a0And I have decided I spent just the right amount of time in LA. \u00a0Should be taking off soon..<\/p>\n<p>The excitement builds \u2026<\/p>\n<p>This just in. \u00a0According to the Capt., the flight time is 13 hrs, 37 min. \u00a0However, there is a curfew in Sydney: no flights before 6 AM. \u00a0So even if we leave on time, it wouldn\u2019t matter. \u00a0Interesting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Flight 815 to Sydney 8\/23\/00 Wednesday 10:40 PM CT Sitting at the tarmac, waiting on a connecting flight, flights? \u00a0Anyhow, the missionary fellow is in the seat next to me, and a screaming toddler is behind me. \u00a0The flight just&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-triptoaustralia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}