{"id":120,"date":"2008-01-29T03:51:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T10:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eriknovales.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/01\/29\/pittsburgh-early-in-the-morning\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T03:51:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T10:51:44","slug":"pittsburgh-early-in-the-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh, Early in the Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/eriknovales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/me-in-pit.jpg\" alt=\"Me in Pittsburgh\" align=\"right\" \/>My flight to Pittsburgh arrived about a half-hour early, so I have some extra time to write about the trip. I feared that I wouldn&#8217;t be able to sleep due to the presence of a very chatty woman (with a bullhorn for a voice) seated two rows ahead in the window seat. I would go so far as to say that she is the first woman I&#8217;ve seen that could be called unctuous &#8212; that sort of shadiness combined with youthful &#8220;look at my <em>k-k-krazee<\/em> antics!&#8221; (The phrase, &#8220;This could be the start of a beautiful relationship,&#8221; was uttered. Seriously.) Fortunately, though, she went to sleep as well.<\/p>\n<p>The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000SKXZOA?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theperbloofer-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000SKXZOA\">travel pillow<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=theperbloofer-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000SKXZOA\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important;margin: 0px ! important\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/> that Sandy bought me (the Bucky &#8220;Gusto&#8221;) is great. It&#8217;s very well designed, can be blown up in a single (large) breath, and collapses into itself for storage. I found that I had to swivel it a little bit to find a comfortable spot on which to rest my head (it&#8217;s asymmetrical), but once I did, I was able to sleep fairly soundly.<\/p>\n<p>Other things: I think the guy in 5D in front of me was a mileage runner as well. One of the crew said something along the lines of, &#8220;So you&#8217;re back again, huh? That was a quick turn&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also, the terminal here in Pittsburgh is surprisingly pleasant. Much nicer than the one at LAX&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My flight to Pittsburgh arrived about a half-hour early, so I have some extra time to write about the trip. I feared that I wouldn&#8217;t be able to sleep due to the presence of a very chatty woman (with a bullhorn for a voice) seated two rows ahead in the window seat. I would go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}