{"id":205,"date":"2004-01-26T20:04:38","date_gmt":"2004-01-26T20:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wheresdrew.com\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2006-05-06T19:08:11","modified_gmt":"2006-05-06T10:08:11","slug":"fly-the-dilapidated-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/2004\/01\/26\/fly-the-dilapidated-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly the dilapidated skies."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are certain things you don&#8217;t want to see on an airplane.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nNear the top of the list you&#8217;re likely to find: <b>holes in the damned ceiling!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wheresdrew.com\/blogpics\/DCP_0001.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>(See it? Over there, on the left, above the guy with dark hair.)<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, it&#8217;s not a gaping hole, letting in rain and birds, and letting out air, seats and passengers. It&#8217;s just a loose ceiling tile, and is probably more a cosmetic flaw than a structural one.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, visible defects are a bit discomforting. I mean, if I can look up and see something wrong with the plane, what&#8217;s wrong with it that I can&#8217;t see? Loose bolts, missing screws, rats in the pantry&#8230; It&#8217;s probably not a train of thought that should be followed too far. It&#8217;d likely make one never want to fly again. And being in Korea my travel options are kind of limited. Then again, there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jrkyushu.co.jp\/beetle\/english\/beetleinfo\/main.html\">that cool hydrofoil ferry<\/a>  that runs from Busan to Fukuoka&#8230;.Anyways, I&#8217;m crossing Korean Air off my &#8220;preferred carrier&#8221; list. I didn&#8217;t have their air miles card, so it&#8217;s no great loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are certain things you don&#8217;t want to see on an airplane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}