{"id":9,"date":"2006-04-30T01:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T08:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/?p=9"},"modified":"2011-03-11T20:15:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T04:15:25","slug":"were-not-in-the-us-anymore-andrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Were not in the US anymore, Andrew&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It didn&#8217;t take long after taking off from LA to know that we weren&#8217;t going to be in the US any longer.  Just until the wheels were taken up and stowed into the aircraft after takeoff &#8230; when the pilots turned off the seatbelt sign.  Guess the lawers for Air New Zealand aren&#8217;t as worried as the ones from US carriers&#8230;.  \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n<p>Oh &#8230; also when someone had to lure a &#8220;local dog&#8221;off the runway in Papeete with a bone so that we could taxi to the terminal.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, when we had to figure out how to slow down to Island Time.  A luxurious thing to complain about, I know.  But it makes you realize how much stock we put into &#8220;becoming&#8221;what we do for a living.  Being just you and then figuring out who you are is a different question.  And hopefully life is bigger than just a job.  At least, I hope I&#8217;ll have a positive answer to that in just a little while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It didn&#8217;t take long after taking off from LA to know that we weren&#8217;t going to be in the US any longer. Just until the wheels were taken up and stowed into the aircraft after takeoff &#8230; when the pilots turned off the seatbelt sign. Guess the lawers for Air New Zealand aren&#8217;t as worried &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/?p=9\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rtw2006","category-travel","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidulwave.quark.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}