{"id":310,"date":"2014-05-18T18:21:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T18:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/?p=310"},"modified":"2016-11-24T12:46:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T12:46:43","slug":"2014515the-long-way-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"The long way home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T 0 &#8211; A 4 am start &#8211; bleary eyed to start. Porridge for the journey.<\/p>\n<p>Then the bus to MPA<\/p>\n<p>3 \u00bd hour wait for the RAF to load 91 pax &#8211; beyond reason.<\/p>\n<p>2 hour stopover in Ascension &#8211; to refuel and check the a\/c (RyanAir can do this in 20 mins)<\/p>\n<p>Bumpy flight for the first 3 hours of the 8hr 40 min northern leg<\/p>\n<p>Spring in England &#8211; so green and leafy &#8211; there are trees<\/p>\n<p>Smooth drive home &#8211; though roadworks with average speed cameras annoying &#8211; especially when the hire car does not have cruise control<\/p>\n<p>T+30 &#8211; I arrive home<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_538\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-538\" style=\"width: 665px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IAG-2014-06-17-17006.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[310]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IAG-2014-06-17-17006-4000x2671.jpg\" alt=\"Old low light, North Shields\" width=\"665\" height=\"444\" class=\"size-large wp-image-538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IAG-2014-06-17-17006-4000x2671.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IAG-2014-06-17-17006-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-538\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old Low Light, North Shields<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T 0 &#8211; A 4 am start &#8211; bleary eyed to start. Porridge for the journey. Then the bus to MPA 3 \u00bd hour wait for the RAF to load 91 pax &#8211; beyond reason. 2 hour stopover in Ascension &#8211; to refuel and check the a\/c (RyanAir can do this in 20 mins) Bumpy flight for the first 3 hours of the 8hr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}