{"id":5534,"date":"2010-09-27T12:18:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T16:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5534"},"modified":"2010-09-27T12:10:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T16:10:47","slug":"air-travel-does-the-punishment-fit-the-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/09\/27\/air-travel-does-the-punishment-fit-the-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Air travel: does the punishment fit the crime?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terry Teachout<\/a> isn’t enjoying his air travel experiences on his current trip. A selection of his Twitter updates from this morning:<\/p>\n

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First<\/a>: I’m at LaGuardia and seized with an all-consuming hatred for air travel, every aspect of which is disgusting, degrading, and dehumanizing.<\/p>\n

Second<\/a>: I’d also like to throttle most of my fellow travelers, including all who are conducting cell-phone conversations within earshot of me.<\/p>\n

Third<\/a>: Finally, I’d like to offer a special welcome in hell to the people at Gate D6 who are reading self-evidently stupid books and magazines.<\/p>\n

Fourth<\/a>: Gee, you wouldn’t think that I’m H.L. Mencken’s biographer, would you?<\/p>\n

Fifth<\/a>: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”<\/p>\n

Sixth<\/a>: I guess I’m in what I like to call one of my exterminate-all-the-brutes moods. This, too, shall pass…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve pretty much given up on air travel since my last flight experience. I’ll use it for extreme long distance or trans-oceanic travel, but otherwise, I’ll continue to avoid it as much as possible. (Probably my worst trip<\/a> overlapped with one of the attempted terrorist attacks.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Terry Teachout isn’t enjoying his air travel experiences on his current trip. A selection of his Twitter updates from this morning: First: I’m at LaGuardia and seized with an all-consuming hatred for air travel, every aspect of which is disgusting, degrading, and dehumanizing. Second: I’d also like to throttle most of my fellow travelers, including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[8,10,13],"tags":[123,591,201,202,451],"class_list":["post-5534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-liberty","category-usa","tag-aircraft","tag-hlmencken","tag-securitytheatre","tag-travel","tag-tsa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1rg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5534"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5539,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions\/5539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}