{"id":245,"date":"2017-04-29T12:55:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T18:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/?p=245"},"modified":"2019-03-12T23:22:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T05:22:07","slug":"ten-perspectives-on-a-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"Ten perspectives on a plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/home.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CoppinsQuote.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-246 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/home.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CoppinsQuote.jpeg\" alt=\"Pilot, 45 minutes into 10-hour flight: &quot;I have to confess, I didn't quite realize how complicated this would be...&quot;\" width=\"583\" height=\"287\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Passenger, 3rd row: (checks parachute, secures jump suit, and sips complimentary champagne)<\/p>\n<p>Reporter, 10th row, window seat: &#8220;The latest poll says that the people who voted for this pilot still like her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Passenger, 15th row, aisle seat: &#8220;She isn&#8217;t MY pilot. I voted for the other one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Passenger, 33rd row, center seat: &#8220;We might crash, but at least I won&#8217;t die sitting next to a Radical Islamic Terrorist. Or a drug addict.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Passenger, 33rd row, aisle seat: (signals flight attendant for another scotch and belches loudly)<\/p>\n<p>FAA chairman, in the flight tower: &#8220;Gosh, who was responsible for checking her license?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Russian, at the airport: &#8220;They chose their pilot by popular election? Idiots!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>European, at the airport: (shakes heads sadly and rebalances his&nbsp;stock portfolio to eliminate shares in the airline)<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping, on the phone with Kim Jong Un: &#8220;So how are those missiles coming along?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Putin, in the corporate HQ for a rival airline: (waits patiently for news of the crash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passenger, 3rd row: (checks parachute, secures jump suit, and sips complimentary champagne) Reporter, 10th row, window seat: &#8220;The latest poll says that the people who<span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/?p=245\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-trump"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CoppinsQuote.jpeg",583,287,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CoppinsQuote-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CoppinsQuote-300x148.jpeg",300,148,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CoppinsQuote.jpeg",583,287,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CoppinsQuote.jpeg",583,287,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CoppinsQuote.jpeg",583,287,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CoppinsQuote.jpeg",583,287,false],"miteri-cp-520x400":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CoppinsQuote.jpeg",520,256,false],"miteri-cp-450x450":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CoppinsQuote.jpeg",450,222,false],"miteri-cp-700x700":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CoppinsQuote.jpeg",583,287,false],"miteri-cp-800x500":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CoppinsQuote.jpeg",583,287,false],"miteri-cp-1200x580":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CoppinsQuote.jpeg",583,287,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Lee","author_link":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Passenger, 3rd row: (checks parachute, secures jump suit, and sips complimentary champagne) Reporter, 10th row, window seat: &#8220;The latest poll says that the people whoRead More","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}