{"id":10622,"date":"2016-08-18T07:26:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T11:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougbittinger.com\/thoughts\/?p=10622"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:38","slug":"trails-of-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/trails-of-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Trails of Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/PineyMountainFoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trails-of-Travel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10625\" src=\"https:\/\/PineyMountainFoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trails-of-Travel-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"vapor trails of travel\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>How many people, I wonder, have passed through the skies above us this morning? Where were they headed, what were their stories? How little thought we give to the tens of thousands of people who hurtle through the atmosphere every day &#8230; until something unfortunate happens. Then, for a moment, we think of the travelers, fear air travel, decry the industry.<\/p>\n<p>For a moment.<\/p>\n<p>Then the moment passes and we go back to being comfortably oblivious.<span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 37px; left: 350px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many people, I wonder, have passed through the skies above us this morning? Where were they headed, what were their stories? How little thought we give to the tens of thousands of people who hurtle through the atmosphere every day &hellip; until something unfortunate happens. Then, for a moment, we think of the travelers, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/trails-of-travel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trails of Travel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20397,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10622\/revisions\/20397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}