{"id":272,"date":"2008-05-25T12:55:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T20:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2008-05-25T14:21:18","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T22:21:18","slug":"landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/blogpix\/BoeingApproach.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/RealAudio\/SonataLento.m3u\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/blogpix\/mscblue.jpg\"\"alt=\"listen\"\/><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;listen<\/font><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/Sonatapg1s.html\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/blogpix\/moregn.jpg\"\/><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;about the music<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><font color=#346513>A slow approach.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p>A brief post to say hello, and to share a unique view. Seated close enough to give the pilot a neck rub as he brought the little puddle jumper down the Salish Sea from Friday Harbor to Seattle, (no, I did not offer my services), this was the intriguing line-up I saw last Monday as we approached Boeing Field. Impressive Mt. Rainier was a beacon for the runway, and the serendipitous alignment of the natural and the man-made, even in the early morning haze, was quite majestic.<\/p>\n<p>This was the start of my epic journey to New York City, one that always takes exactly 14, count &#8217;em, 14 hours door to door, given two flights, shuttle, airport layover, taxi, and whatnot. But I really don&#8217;t mind; it&#8217;s wonderful having the time to think, to breathe, to observe people and geography. There&#8217;s even a quiet little wine bar at SEATAC for a civilized rest and repast. And as I&#8217;ve posted before, the potent communications combo of laptop, Treo and book (you know, that antique thing with pages you have to turn) provides plenty of entertainment and activity. I&#8217;m never, ever bored. <\/p>\n<p>More thoughts and photos this week, as always. It&#8217;s a gorgeous shiny day, the outdoors beckons, and I obey, happily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}