{"id":49972,"date":"2015-03-31T22:56:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T04:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/31\/ah-airline-service-of-yesteryear.html"},"modified":"2015-05-07T15:58:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T21:58:48","slug":"ah-airline-service-of-yesteryear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/31\/ah-airline-service-of-yesteryear.html","title":{"rendered":"Ah, airline service of yesteryear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starring the Amazing Spider-Man! Well, sort of.<\/p>\n<p>What&#39;s interesting (in a morbid sort of way) is how this commercial sells high levels of service and pleasure to even steerage class. Today&#39;s airlines tout comfort and leisure &#8230; to the folk up in the front cabin behind the curtain, while the rest of us are promised, um, marginally lower prices (plus fees),<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Kee Hinckley<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The service! The pub! The pong! The collars!! Watch this 70&#39;s airline commercial and weep.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wjZ0XMGuqAs' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/XznqbxBPoyZ'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starring the Amazing Spider-Man! Well, sort of. What&#39;s interesting (in a morbid sort of way) is how this commercial sells high levels of service and pleasure to even steerage class. Today&#39;s airlines tout comfort and leisure &#8230; to the folk up in the front cabin behind the curtain, while the rest of us are promised, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/31\/ah-airline-service-of-yesteryear.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ah, airline service of yesteryear&#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":"","_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":[106,80,108,717],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-commercial","category-history","category-traveling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1484,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/27\/perhaps_he_shou.html","url_meta":{"origin":49972,"position":0},"title":"Perhaps he should have offered to have them call the Attorney General","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 27-Dec-01 11:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A guard of Arab descent from President Bush's security detail, rerouted onto a commercial flight, is kicked off the American Airlines flight because nobody would believe he was in the...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Homeland Security&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Homeland Security","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/homeland-security"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129885,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/21\/you-can-thank-republicans-for-all-that-spacious-leg-room-on-air-flights.html","url_meta":{"origin":49972,"position":1},"title":"You can thank Republicans for all that spacious leg room on air flights","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 21-Feb-16 2:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, no, that's probably unfair. 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