{"id":6782,"date":"2005-01-03T22:28:09","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T05:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/01\/03\/the-oooooooonly-way-to-fly.html"},"modified":"2005-01-03T22:28:09","modified_gmt":"2005-01-04T05:28:09","slug":"the_oooooooonly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/03\/the_oooooooonly.html","title":{"rendered":"The oooooooonly way to fly!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, I promise to stop trying to trump other people’s air travel Sob Stories. These folks definitely win the brownie<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Some of the 300 passengers stuck on an international flight that was delayed 18 hours by fog, regulations and mechanical glitches said the passengers were almost ready to riot as the wait dragged on.<\/p>\n

Food and water ran short, and the toilets stopped working before Northwest Airlines Flight 33 finally reached Seattle early Wednesday, 28 hours after leaving Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

(via Rooba<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, I promise to stop trying to trump other people’s air travel Sob Stories. These folks definitely win the brownie: Some of the 300 passengers stuck on an international flight…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23781,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/16\/stuck-on-the-tarmac-or-stuck-at-the-airport.html","url_meta":{"origin":6782,"position":0},"title":"Stuck on the tarmac, or stuck at the airport?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 16-Nov-11 10:23am","format":false,"excerpt":"Two issues in this article. 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