{"id":789,"date":"2009-02-18T02:04:07","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T02:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=789"},"modified":"2022-09-05T14:44:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T22:44:25","slug":"always_show_up_before_the_gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/always_show_up_before_the_gate\/","title":{"rendered":"Always show up before the gates close"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When you fly, you want to make sure you follow the rules. When you know what time the gates will close, always get there BEFORE that time. Don&#8217;t expect the doors to be held open for you simply because you can&#8217;t be bothered to tell time. Otherwise, you&#8217;ll turn out like this:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xbVw7entkxg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>An embarassment to all the Cantonese in the world<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If she tried this stunt in Singapore, she&#8217;d already be in cuffs and perp-walked away. If she tried this in San Francisco, she&#8217;d be appointed to the Board of Supervisors.<br>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/boardingarea.com\/blogs\/onemileatatime\/2009\/02\/15\/how-not-to-act-when-you-miss-a-flight\/#comment-27348\">Lucky<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cheeserland.com\/2009\/02\/busy-la\/\">Cheesie<\/a>, who both had this video before me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you fly, you want to make sure you follow the rules. When you know what time the gates will close, always get there BEFORE that time. Don&#8217;t expect the doors to be held open for you simply because you can&#8217;t be bothered to tell time. Otherwise, you&#8217;ll turn out like this: If she tried &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/always_show_up_before_the_gate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Always show up before the gates close&#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":[4,16],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-travel-advice","category-misc-hk-stuff","tag-hong-kong"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-cJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","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=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2470,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/2470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}