{"id":507,"date":"2006-08-18T14:46:12","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T14:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=507"},"modified":"2006-08-18T14:46:12","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T14:46:12","slug":"once_in_a_blue_moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/once_in_a_blue_moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Once in a blue moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/gate72.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/gate72.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/gate72-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Writing from SFO, Gate 73 for my twice delayed flight to LAX&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\nI have something nice to say about UAL, so you&#8217;d better read up!  It dun happen very often&#8230;<br \/>\nAlthough UAL deserves its horrible reputation for putting the union before the customers and company, sometimes they get it right.<br \/>\nUA has a service called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.united.com\/page\/article\/0,6722,1974,00.html?navSource=HPDropdown&#038;linkTitle=EasyUpdate\">Easy Update<\/a><\/em>.  It will shoot an SMS to your mobile a few hours before your ticketed flight.  It will also send you another SMS letting you know when a flight has been delayed and the new departure time.<br \/>\nBecause of this, I didn&#8217;t have to rush to SFO with two duffle bags, a big, heavy box of books from Amazon, two pet feeders and a couple of nested suitcases with 7 days of clothes for hot environments.  The first two items are not mine; I&#8217;m just couriering them over for a friend.<br \/>\nBest thing about hot clothes; they take less space!!<br \/>\nSo if you&#8217;re a UA victim, sign up for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.united.com\/page\/article\/0,6722,1974,00.html?navSource=HPDropdown&#038;linkTitle=EasyUpdate\">Easy Update<\/a><\/em>.  It often knows of the delays and rescheduled flights faster than the gate agents do!<br \/>\nWaaaaaaaaah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing from SFO, Gate 73 for my twice delayed flight to LAX&#8230; I have something nice to say about UAL, so you&#8217;d better read up! It dun happen very often&#8230; Although UAL deserves its horrible reputation for putting the union before the customers and company, sometimes they get it right. UA has a service called &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/once_in_a_blue_moon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Once in a blue moon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-travel-advice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-8b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}