{"id":3672,"date":"2000-04-16T18:05:57","date_gmt":"2000-04-17T01:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=3672"},"modified":"2018-02-28T11:47:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:47:23","slug":"the-journey-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2000\/04\/16\/the-journey-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"The journey ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-3672\">\n<p>We had to cross another marathon to get to the airport, and the    cab driver cursed out another driver, which reminded us of home here  in Chicago.    Otherwise, the return flight was uneventful. However, the airline  decided to    deliver one of our bags the next day, which meant we had to wait  around until    all the bags were off the flight, then wait in another line (with only  one customer    service rep) to report our bag missing just to be told it would be on a  flight    tomorrow. Too bad customer service doesn&#8217;t mean anything to KLM  anymore&#8230;. By    the way, our bag was finally delivered, in one piece, two days later,  after    a number of phone calls of which only one resulted in a talking to a  real person    (at least that person was kind and had useful information).<\/p>\n<p>I found one nice quote in a copy of Military Heritage magazine that I  read    on the return flight: &#8220;Security is very frequently the commencement of  calamity.&#8221;    &#8211; Paterculus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-3672\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 3672);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-3672\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-3672\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had to cross another marathon to get to the airport, and the cab driver cursed out another driver, which reminded us of home here in Chicago. Otherwise, the return flight was uneventful. However, the airline decided to deliver one of our bags the next day, which meant we had to wait around until all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[683],"class_list":["post-3672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-italy-2000"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-Xe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179226,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions\/179226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}