{"id":573881069,"date":"2011-01-11T14:02:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T20:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573881069"},"modified":"2011-01-11T14:08:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T20:08:55","slug":"war-eagle-at-37000-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2011\/01\/11\/war-eagle-at-37000-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"War Eagle at 37,000 feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My step-father is a pilot. He just sent me a note about he followed the Auburn game last night:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was able to watch the first quarter at my hotel in Long Beach, then I had to head to the airport to get ready for my flight home (all the while getting scoring updates from Yahoo! on my phone).<\/p>\n<p>We took off just after half-time began, climbed to 37,000 feet and with each frequency change (about 10 to 15 minutes apart) I asked our new controller if they had a score.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I didn&#8217;t even have to tell them WHAT score I was looking for.<\/p>\n<p>While we were in Denver Center&#8217;s airspace, I received the final score &#8230; to which I appropriately commented, &#8220;War Eagle!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The controller said, &#8220;Say again?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I replied with, &#8220;War Eagle! It&#8217;s a Auburn thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;Understood.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june09\/june24.jpg\" alt=\"Rick\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My step-father is a pilot. He just sent me a note about he followed the Auburn game last night: I was able to watch the first quarter at my hotel in Long Beach, then I had to head to the airport to get ready for my flight home (all the while getting scoring updates from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,38,36,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573881069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auburn","category-family","category-football","category-photo","category-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573881069"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573881077,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881069\/revisions\/573881077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573881069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573881069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573881069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}