{"id":4089,"date":"2014-11-14T19:55:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T03:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=4089"},"modified":"2014-11-14T19:55:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T03:55:33","slug":"long-days-journey-into-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/long-days-journey-into-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Long day&#8217;s journey into night"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4090\" style=\"width: 277px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_4349.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4090\" class=\" wp-image-4090\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_4349.jpg?resize=267%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mount Ranier in the gloaming\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4090\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Ranier in the gloaming<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It has been a long day of travel. \u00a0I left Asheville at 7:15am eastern, headed to Atlanta, spent three hours there and then was all set to leave when a woman on our flight got sick on medication and had to be taken off the plane. \u00a0That set us back an hour and half and I missed my connection from Salt Lake City to Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>Impressed though with Delta Airlines. \u00a0While we were in the air their &#8220;Irregular Operations Team&#8221; was hard at work getting everyone rebooked on different flights (and in some cases different carriers.) \u00a0the captain came back twice to reassure us that no one had Ebola and that all our connections would be taken care of. \u00a0In flight wifi meant that we could check our new itineraries en route. \u00a0When I arrived in Salt Lake, it was a simple matter to print out new boarding passes and I even caught a first class upgrade to Seattle. \u00a0Now I&#8217;m at SEA-TAC, sated with some salmon and a bitter northwest IPA at the tail end of my second three hour layover awaiting the final leg home to Vancouver. \u00a0Once I get there it will be a train downtown and a car2go out to Horseshoe Bay to meet the 1230 water taxi. \u00a0I should be home by 1am, which will mark 21 hours of travel today, about two hours longer than the last time I went to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>I have managed to get through a third of Bruce Cockburn&#8217;s new memoir, \u00a0several saved up Instapaper articles, some Radiolab and Tapestry podcasts and some ideas for future inquiries about things. \u00a0So not a bad day. \u00a0Just a long one. \u00a0Four hours to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It has been a long day of travel. \u00a0I left Asheville at 7:15am eastern, headed to Atlanta, spent three hours there and then was all set to leave when a woman on our flight got sick on medication and had to be taken off the plane. \u00a0That set us back an hour and half and I missed my connection from Salt Lake City to Vancouver. Impressed though with Delta Airlines. \u00a0While we were in the air their &#8220;Irregular Operations Team&#8221; was hard at work getting everyone rebooked on different flights (and in some cases different carriers.) \u00a0the captain came &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-13X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4091,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions\/4091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}