{"id":12490,"date":"2008-04-16T09:14:45","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T16:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/04\/16\/final-frontier.html"},"modified":"2008-04-16T09:14:45","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T16:14:45","slug":"final_frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/16\/final_frontier.html","title":{"rendered":"Final Frontier?"},"content":{"rendered":"

And let me tell you that hearing that the airline you flew out on (and, presumably, will fly back on) has Google News<\/a> is always good for a few seconds of adrenaline. Though kudos to Frontier for being the first to tell me (since, in a soothing and calm message that only made me immediately run to Google News<\/a> (on my Blackberry, which was still working at that point) to confirm WTF<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And let me tell you that hearing that the airline you flew out on (and, presumably, will fly back on) has Google News is always good for a few seconds…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8520,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/20\/this_week_on_ai.html","url_meta":{"origin":12490,"position":0},"title":"This week on Airline …","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 20-Oct-05 9:23am","format":false,"excerpt":"Southwest will start service to Denver next year. 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