{"id":2342,"date":"2014-11-26T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/11\/26\/notes-from-cruising-altitude\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:35:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:35:10","slug":"notes-from-cruising-altitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/11\/26\/notes-from-cruising-altitude\/","title":{"rendered":"NOTES FROM CRUISING ALTITUDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been chasing the sun across the Atlantic. It&#8217;s been a 4.5 hour long sunset, the sky stippled orange, layered with yellow and topped with deep evening blue above a bubbled deceptive surface of clouds.<\/p>\n<p>Clouds all the way across the sea&#8230;i am glad to be above them in the clear sky. How dark it must be below this endless expanse. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had only a little turbulence and I&#8217;ve had only a little sleep. According to my phone it is only a little after 9, long after the sun would have slid beneath the planet&#8217;s curve back home.<\/p>\n<p>Flying is so strange and disorienting. We are flung over the earth, jumbling our sense of time and space.<\/p>\n<p>The captain just announced another patch of turbulence ahead, recorded by earlier passing pilots. I must stop writing and focus all my concentration on keeping this plane in the air with the strength of my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been chasing the sun across the Atlantic. It&#8217;s been a 4.5 hour long sunset, the sky stippled orange, layered with yellow and topped with deep evening blue above a bubbled deceptive surface of clouds. Clouds all the way across the sea&#8230;i am glad to be above them in the clear sky. How dark it must be below this endless expanse. We&#8217;ve had only a little turbulence and I&#8217;ve had only a little sleep. According to my phone it is only a little after 9, long after the sun would have slid beneath the planet&#8217;s curve back home. Flying is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-2342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-americanabroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3846,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions\/3846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}