{"id":7367,"date":"2020-02-01T19:19:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T02:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=7367"},"modified":"2020-01-30T19:20:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T02:20:13","slug":"flying-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=7367","title":{"rendered":"Flying is &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230; as simple as riding a bike. &#8211; Only you\u2019re riding that bike on a springboard over the Grand Canyon while juggling six balls with a random seventh, eighth or ninth thrown in, doing your federal tax returns, taking dictation from an auctioneer, speaking a foreign language, interpreting several hieroglyphic maps, operating at least four computers, drinking a bottle of water, doing algebra in your head, and simultaneously conducting urgent experiments in navigation, critical thinking, meteorology, biology, psychology, chemical propulsion, thermodynamics, metallurgy and \u2013 of course\u2013aerodynamics as you prepare to react to a dozen different emergency situations that could have life-threatening implications if you don\u2019t do the right thing nearly immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From this awesome blog: http:\/\/airfactsjournal.com\/2014\/01\/hard-fly-airplane-simple\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230; as simple as riding a bike. &#8211; Only you\u2019re riding that bike on a springboard over the Grand Canyon while juggling six balls with a random seventh, eighth or ninth thrown in, doing your federal tax returns, taking dictation from an auctioneer, speaking a foreign language, interpreting several hieroglyphic maps, operating at least four &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=7367\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flying is &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flying","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7368,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7367\/revisions\/7368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}