{"id":24035,"date":"2013-06-18T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=24035"},"modified":"2016-09-30T16:03:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T20:03:33","slug":"ah-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2013\/06\/ah-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah, travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/56\/2013\/06\/46262970_interior40s.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24036\" title=\"_46262970_interior40s\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/56\/2013\/06\/46262970_interior40s-575x383.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"383\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember when air travel was like this?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Neither do I.<\/p>\n<p>This is more like it:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24037\" title=\"1010944_10200985552253488_710835223_n\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/56\/2013\/06\/1010944_10200985552253488_710835223_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"960\"><\/p>\n<p>As I write, I\u2019m sitting at a table in Au Bon Pain at the United terminal at LaGuardia, waiting for my flight to Denver for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicpress.org\/?page=CMC13Schedule\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Catholic Media Conference<\/a><\/strong> (you can follow on twitter at #cmc13). I\u2019m looking forward to spending some quality time with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2013\/05\/my-american-idol\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">My Idol,<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(who writes about this event<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2013\/06\/18\/egad-me-on-a-plane-again-pray-for-me\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a><\/strong>) and gawking at a few other idols, too, like Fr. Robert Barron and assorted bloggy types. (I\u2019m slated to be on a panel Thursday morning with the likes of Greg Willets and Lisa Hendey. I\u2019ll just sit at the end of the table and laugh hysterically at their jokes, to better give the illusion that I actually belong there\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll try and post updates from time to time, and maybe a picture of a mountain or two. And, of course, reports on the fine cuisine they\u2019ll be serving in flight!<\/p>\n<p>Later\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when air travel was like this? Yeah. Neither do I. This is more like it: As I write, I\u2019m sitting at a table in Au Bon Pain at the United terminal at LaGuardia, waiting for my flight to Denver for the Catholic Media Conference (you can follow on twitter at #cmc13). I\u2019m looking forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ah, travel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Remember when air travel was like this? Yeah. Neither do I. 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