{"id":26,"date":"2014-02-24T00:25:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T00:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/?p=26"},"modified":"2014-02-24T09:52:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T09:52:04","slug":"life-at-30k-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/2014\/02\/24\/life-at-30k-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"Life at 30k feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotta say, it&#8217;s not so shabby. Hot face towel, glass of champagne, bowl of warm mixed nuts&#8230;and we haven&#8217;t even taken off yet!<br \/>\nSo let me paint the scene. I&#8217;m sitting in business class seat 7K, which is nicely nestled against the right bulkhead of the plane. I&#8217;ve been playing with the myriad toys that Emirates provides, including an adjustable seat with massage, multi-function tablet that controls the entertainment center and aforementioned seat, and a rather old-school looking phone handset, complete with tether!<br \/>\nI was hoping that there would be wifi on the flight, alas I can&#8217;t see any. The ancient handset is supposed to provide SMS and email. Well, I have 15 hours to figure it out.<br \/>\nEntertainment is abundant, which makes sense given the duration I the flight. Fifteen-hundred channels to pick from! That&#8217;s about 4 times worse than cable! I&#8217;m watching Thor, the movie, again. Later I may try an Arabic one. After dinner.<br \/>\nOh, and dinner is, by the way, as abundant as the movie channels. Five courses, if I counted correctly. I&#8217;m not even that hungry, but what the heck! How often do you get to enjoy a 5-course meal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotta say, it&#8217;s not so shabby. Hot face towel, glass of champagne, bowl of warm mixed nuts&#8230;and we haven&#8217;t even taken off yet! So let me paint the scene. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/2014\/02\/24\/life-at-30k-feet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Life at 30k feet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india-dubai-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikestravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}