{"id":72,"date":"2006-05-16T23:42:51","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T22:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2006\/05\/16\/a_good_way_and_a_bad_way\/"},"modified":"2006-05-16T23:42:51","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T22:42:51","slug":"a_good_way_and_a_bad_way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2006\/05\/16\/a_good_way_and_a_bad_way\/","title":{"rendered":"A good way and a bad way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/elephant.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/elephant.html','popup','width=480,height=640,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/elephant-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" alt=\"\"  style=\"float: right; margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;\"\/><\/a>OK, so this afternoon showed me how you can start off a holiday in a good way and a bad way.  Thankfully I was on the good side of the equation, whilst a South African guy on my flight definitely was on the wrong one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI&#8217;m currently taking a week off with friends Pob and Steph near Edinburgh.  On my flight on the way up, a young South African guy boarding the flight made a comment to a stewardess, and less than 15 minutes later was being escorted off the plane by some fairly serious looking police!  I think he made some joke about a bomb, security or the like, but the flight crew had a serious sense of humour failure, and he was ejected from the plane.  Definitely not the way he wanted to be starting his hols!  There&#8217;s a part of me that hates that we&#8217;ve got this facist about things like this, but I guess the flight crew have to act in this way; they have no other option.<br \/>\nI, on the other hand, definitely had a better start to my time off.  On arrival in Edinburgh, I went straight to the &#8216;Elephant House&#8217; cafe, ordered a beer and what turned out to be a fantastic apple and almond cake.  Let the r and r commence!<br \/>\nI&#8217;m just glad I wasn&#8217;t in too jovial a mood when I boarded the BMI flight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so this afternoon showed me how you can start off a holiday in a good way and a bad way. Thankfully I was on the good side of the equation, whilst a South African guy on my flight definitely was on the wrong one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}