{"id":872,"date":"2008-09-02T18:37:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T18:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/02\/we-are-not-going-to-scotland\/"},"modified":"2008-09-02T18:48:19","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T18:48:19","slug":"we-are-not-going-to-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/02\/we-are-not-going-to-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"we are not going to scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Me:<\/strong>  I&#8217;m loading the iPod for the flight.  What kind of music do you want?<br \/>\n<strong>Steph: <\/strong> Bagpipes, Buffy! Tons and TONS of bagpipes!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m accustomed to flying solo, or with The Euro.  I&#8217;ve never done it with anyone else.  This will be my first girls-only holiday.  It&#8217;s Steph&#8217;s first time on an airplane.  <\/p>\n<p>As a recovering aerophobic myself, I understand her pain.  Ten years ago &#8211; to the very day we&#8217;ll be travelling &#8211; I took my first flight.  It took two doses of horse tranquilizer to keep me calm (that&#8217;s only a slight exaggeration).  In September 2001 I finally got over my fear.  I remember sitting in New York the day before taking off thinking <em>I&#8217;m not the least bit bothered by this.  How great is that?.<\/em>  Two days later, 9-11.  Needless to say it took a few more years of in-flight breathing exercises before I outgrew the nervousness again.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to make the whole experience as comfortable as possible for my girl Steph.  Admittedly, this could be a bit tricky.  She&#8217;s a teetotaler who wont even pop an Advil so my <em>Have a glass of red and relax<\/em> routine isn&#8217;t really gonna work on her.  Same goes for the horse tranquilizers.  Obviously.  <\/p>\n<p>So if bagpipes is what she wants.  Bagpipes is what she&#8217;ll get.  That, and a lot of chocolate.  Because chocolate.  Is good.  For everything. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me: I&#8217;m loading the iPod for the flight. What kind of music do you want? Steph: Bagpipes, Buffy! Tons and TONS of bagpipes! I&#8217;m accustomed to flying solo, or with The Euro. I&#8217;ve never done it with anyone else. This will be my first girls-only holiday. It&#8217;s Steph&#8217;s first time on an airplane. As a<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}