{"id":559,"date":"2008-12-24T10:32:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T17:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=559"},"modified":"2009-11-23T00:58:31","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T07:58:31","slug":"kind-of-a-close-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"Kind of a close call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heather &amp; I are in Charleston, SC with Heather's family for the holidays.\u00a0 We flew out of Denver on a 2:30pm Continental flight to Houston, then on to Charleston.\u00a0 Later that day, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Continental_Airlines_Flight_1404\">Continental #1404 <strong>crashed<\/strong><\/a> on takeoff leaving Denver for Houston at 6:18pm, injuring around 40, but no deaths.\u00a0 Continental regularly flies from Denver to Houston, so #1404 was probably not the next flight of the day.\u00a0 Still, it feels a little like a \"close call\" for us.\u00a0 On our flight they were asking for volunteers to take a later flight since they had overbooked.\u00a0 I wonder how many of the passengers on #1404 had voluntarily taken it as a later flight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather &amp; I are in Charleston, SC with Heather's family for the holidays.\u00a0 We flew out of Denver on a 2:30pm Continental flight to Houston, then on to Charleston.\u00a0 Later that day, Continental #1404 crashed on takeoff leaving Denver for Houston at 6:18pm, injuring around <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=559\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-risk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}