{"id":2104,"date":"2009-01-17T01:32:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T05:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2009-01-28T20:50:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T00:50:14","slug":"heathrow-sucks-and-then-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2104","title":{"rendered":"Heathrow, sucks and then III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">M<\/span>y <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2103\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2103\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/heathrow-150x99.jpg\" alt=\"Heathrow sucks. No, really.\" title=\"Heathrow sucks. No, really.\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2103\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/heathrow-150x99.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/heathrow-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/heathrow-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/heathrow.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> favourite peeve is a rant about Heathrow, London&#8217;s premier airport with those long line-ups, confusing pedways and oh-so helpful security guards (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?s=Heathrow&#038;searchsubmit=Go\">earlier on xsamplex<\/a>). And irritating survey people who question you why you didn&#8217;t buy that backpack even after you punted that the British pound is a bit overpriced. So what else is there to bemoan about?\n<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/politics\/7829676.stm\">Runways!<\/a><\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>On the bright side, if the British Tories win the next elections, they promise to scrap the plan, which will keep Heathrow in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/TRAVEL\/01\/12\/worst.airports\/index.html\">top 10 of most hated airports in the world<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"reference\">\n<p><strong>01\/28\/09:<\/strong> It&#8217;s going to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/politics\/7855522.stm\">be a third runway<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favourite peeve is a rant about Heathrow, London&#8217;s premier airport with those long line-ups, confusing pedways and oh-so helpful security guards (earlier on xsamplex). And irritating survey people who question you why you didn&#8217;t buy that backpack even after &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2104\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,11],"tags":[59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}