{"id":584,"date":"2001-09-14T18:23:36","date_gmt":"2001-09-14T23:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=584"},"modified":"2001-09-14T18:23:36","modified_gmt":"2001-09-14T23:23:36","slug":"the_answer_cour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/09\/14\/the_answer_cour.html","title":{"rendered":"The Answer®, Courtesy of Southwest Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Answer®, Courtesy of Southwest Airlines<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

I would not have thought that anyone as “famous” as Wil Wheaton would be so cool and human. But his blog (linked to the right) is fun, and anyone who would actually post this picture of himself on the Net has to be a cool guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Answer®, Courtesy of Southwest Airlines I would not have thought that anyone as “famous” as Wil Wheaton would be so cool and human. But his blog (linked to the…<\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39752,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/17\/southwest-airlines-joins-precheck-program.html","url_meta":{"origin":584,"position":0},"title":"Southwest Airlines joins PreCheck program","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 17-Nov-13 10:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Sweet. 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