{"id":3351,"date":"2010-06-05T08:37:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T13:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=3351"},"modified":"2010-06-05T08:37:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T13:37:07","slug":"air-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/air-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3352\" href=\"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/05\/air-travel\/flying\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3352\" title=\"Flying\" src=\"http:\/\/seanthorenson.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/flying.jpg?w=450\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I realize flying is the most efficient and, dare I say, safe way to travel but whoever engineered the coach seat was a very little person.<\/strong> I think I may have a touch of claustrophobia because I can barely tolerate sitting in such confined quarters for more than a couple hours. Combine that with a need to stretch out a bad knee and flying becomes a somewhat uncomfortable experience.<\/p>\n<p>I know I can&#8217;t be completely alone with my sensitivities so I try to be conscious of other people&#8217;s &#8216;comfortable&#8217; space requirements. It&#8217;s just common courtesy. I wish someone would tell that to the guy in 14B that feels the need to fully recline his seat to take a nap. It essentially turns the tray table into more of a restraint, so when the refreshment cart rolls by I have to refuse because I can&#8217;t drink without arms. Thankfully today&#8217;s flight won&#8217;t have more than one leg (no layovers!) and will be much shorter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realize flying is the most efficient and, dare I say, safe way to travel but whoever engineered the coach seat was a very little person. I think I may have a touch of claustrophobia because I can barely tolerate sitting in such confined quarters for more than a couple hours. Combine that with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-S3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}