{"id":49341,"date":"2015-01-23T09:54:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T16:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/23\/a-bit-more-in-flight-reading-material-is-lost.html"},"modified":"2015-01-23T09:54:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T16:54:39","slug":"a-bit-more-in-flight-reading-material-is-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/23\/a-bit-more-in-flight-reading-material-is-lost.html","title":{"rendered":"A bit more in-flight reading material is lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never, ever bought anything from Skymall, but I often used their catalogs for entertainment (usually meaning sharing them with <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103328827291075446110\" oid=\"103328827291075446110\">Margie Kleerup<\/a><\/span> and laughing on each page). So for that alone I&#39;m sorry to see them go.<\/p>\n<p>(I do think there were a couple of times a particular widget caught my eye, but if I did follow up on it later, it was via Amazon.)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Les Jenkins<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I never understood the logic of trying to sell stuff to people while they&#39;re travelling in such a way that doesn&#39;t allow them to actually purchase anything until after they land. By the time they make it through baggage claim and out of the airport they&#39;ve probably forgotten all about whatever crappy product they had considered in your magazine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/01\/23\/crapgadget-purveyor-skymall-is-filing-for-bankruptcy\/?ncid=rss_truncated'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/B-XfvELVi5_No9SyOtpXilRdryIZd7r8AxXOg2fEZHCKKM0BYsA7Kdkq31JVRf7p4F1iQMP5wDDTCB6f54dkq5J7u2NMrNzfaDIG8oYEEdCAihdzYBfvB38h7Rd04sINJeVR5xSUWod-mxh_6isT9dEb4e0jQeNk5oAnMI-w7B4vDKMWgpELut54lNkBTr8idiNPSJU37qcTWPK6ZuuncVaMz6pofjK_MDv3U5shZMElg38u0JYI9mMwAfoAHKgvOxhSAMPDT0JgX3N_EX2ncN2OLKypdhPK1ZGcodA2DZ64XbXGjz2i=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/01\/23\/crapgadget-purveyor-skymall-is-filing-for-bankruptcy\/?ncid=rss_truncated'>Crapgadget purveyor Skymall is filing for bankruptcy<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nYou&#8217;d be forgiven for thinking that Skymall, the ubiquitous in-flight magazine featuring things you&#8217;d only buy when drunk on tiny liquor bottles and jet\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/ah3uyxL4wvm'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never, ever bought anything from Skymall, but I often used their catalogs for entertainment (usually meaning sharing them with +Margie Kleerup and laughing on each page). So for that alone I&#39;m sorry to see them go. (I do think there were a couple of times a particular widget caught my eye, but if I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/23\/a-bit-more-in-flight-reading-material-is-lost.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A bit more in-flight reading material is lost&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":"","_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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}