{"id":696,"date":"2006-01-14T04:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-14T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=696"},"modified":"2006-01-14T04:49:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-14T04:49:00","slug":"ill-fly-away-oh-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/ill-fly-away-oh-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll fly away, oh glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There. <\/p>\n<p>I just bought some mid-April tickets to The Schlong to see <a href=\"http:\/\/skunkinthebarnyard.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">a girl about a horse<\/a>. And, as my irrational fears never, ever leave me, I am already fretting in little spurts about the flight(s). Egads, I hate flying. Now I&#8217;m wondering if it&#8217;s wise of me to fly in the middle of April, when it&#8217;s likely to be rainy and stormy and slick and gross. But I wanted to escape the possibility of having to take off or land in the snow. Did I over\/undershoot? <\/p>\n<p>Even the canned Coke and palm-sized pack of pretzels or vanilla granola the smiling flight attendant will offer me will do nothing to soothe my paranoia. I just have to wince, chew gum fiercely, yawn constantly, and deal with it.  <\/p>\n<p>I am excited, naturally, at a whole host of things: Getting to hang out with Amber, meeting Craig, seeing Long Island in the spring (as I have only seen it during the fall), going to the city, taking a vacation from work, feeding the travel bug, etc. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the travel bug, <a href=\"http:\/\/tvonthefritz.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Joey<\/a> and Marie are coming down tomorrow for a visit. I haven&#8217;t seen either of them in many months. Maybe my and Joey&#8217;s blogs will cross-pollenate when he gets here, and you&#8217;ll get a dose of Theology on the Fritz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There. I just bought some mid-April tickets to The Schlong to see a girl about a horse. And, as my irrational fears never, ever leave me, I am already fretting in little spurts about the flight(s). Egads, I hate flying. Now I&#8217;m wondering if it&#8217;s wise of me to fly in the middle of April, when it&#8217;s likely to be rainy and stormy and slick and gross. But I wanted to escape the possibility of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-be","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}