{"id":45674,"date":"2014-10-06T14:49:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T20:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/06\/rather-than-flying.html"},"modified":"2014-10-13T13:54:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:54:57","slug":"rather-than-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/06\/rather-than-flying.html","title":{"rendered":"Rather than Flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When United fubared my flight out to Newark (thence to Glasgow) on Saturday, I ended up going to the Douglas County band competition <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103453067516847485667\" oid=\"103453067516847485667\">Kay Hill<\/a><\/span>  was in with her Arapahoe HS Marching Band compeers. This animated photo was shot during the dinner break. And, yeah, a swarm of high school band kids really does move around that much.<\/p>\n<p>The team came in 1st in 5A schools, and 2nd overall. It bollixed up my schedule, and it was an exhausting day, but I was glad I was there to lend a hand (pushing props, in this case).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6067192578982238049\/6067192581042987554'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-fzHsFXq5wCk\/VDL_gdDz4iI\/AAAAAAAC2y0\/5viDAiolm18\/IMG_20141004_175607683-MOTION.gif?imgmax=660' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/ifH3Nviq5d6'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When United fubared my flight out to Newark (thence to Glasgow) on Saturday, I ended up going to the Douglas County band competition +Kay Hill was in with her Arapahoe HS Marching Band compeers. This animated photo was shot during the dinner break. And, yeah, a swarm of high school band kids really does move &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/06\/rather-than-flying.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rather than Flying&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,713,716],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-band-school-daze","category-my-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_20141004_175607683-MOTION.gifimgmax=660.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128045,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/17\/band-stadium-practice.html","url_meta":{"origin":45674,"position":0},"title":"Band Stadium Practice","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 17-Sep-15 11:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So this one's not all that interesting to the genreral public -- mainly posted for family and friends who want to see +Kay Hill doing band practice stuff (until my phone ran out of juice). \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In Album Arapahoe Band Practice View on Google+","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_20150916_171623613_HDR.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_20150916_171623613_HDR.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_20150916_171623613_HDR.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":48088,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/13\/band-of-er-band-members.html","url_meta":{"origin":45674,"position":1},"title":"Band of &#8230; er, Band Members","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 13-Nov-14 9:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"We went to the Band Award Supper tonight. +Kay Hill (on the right, here with the flute section), got both the \"Aye, Sir\" award for being diligently helpful and the \"Most Improved Woodwind\" award. 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They are damned good.This story about the more controversial side of Ohio State's band is fascinating in terms of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131336,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/20\/band-parents.html","url_meta":{"origin":45674,"position":4},"title":"Band Parents!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 20-Aug-16 8:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"Band Parents! 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