{"id":8545,"date":"2005-10-16T12:09:09","date_gmt":"2005-10-16T19:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/10\/16\/hoity-and-occasionally-toity.html"},"modified":"2005-10-16T12:09:09","modified_gmt":"2005-10-16T19:09:09","slug":"hoity_and_occas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/16\/hoity_and_occas.html","title":{"rendered":"Hoity, and, occasionally, toity"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a symbol of all my business travel over the last year, I am now (or once again) a United Airlines Premier <\/em>Mileage Plus member, complete with silver MP card and all that jazz, good thru February 2007.<\/p>\n

I think that means I get to board the plane early, but don’t get to hang at the Red Carpet Club. Whether I get to go through the Elite Line at the airport is unconfirmed. <\/p>\n

Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a symbol of all my business travel over the last year, I am now (or once again) a United Airlines Premier Mileage Plus member, complete with silver MP card…<\/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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8545","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":11210,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/16\/where_the_elite_meet_to_e.html","url_meta":{"origin":8545,"position":0},"title":"Where the Elite Meet to Eat Little Pretzel Treats!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Mar-07 1:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Just got (a week or two late) my updated United Mileage Plus \"Premier\" card. 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