{"id":40843,"date":"2004-01-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-28T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/01\/28\/passenger-announcements-in-the-airport\/"},"modified":"2004-01-28T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-28T07:00:00","slug":"passenger-announcements-in-the-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040128-00\/?p=40843","title":{"rendered":"Passenger announcements in the airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport yesterday, waiting for my flight to eventually be cancelled due to weather, then waiting for a replacement itinerary (um, the weather is the same at the destination; doesn&#8217;t matter which plane you take), then waiting for the replacement to be cancelled also (wow imagine that), I heard an announcement on the public address system: &#8220;Will passenger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/opinion\/columns\/kinsleymichael\/\"> Michael Kinsley<\/a> please pick up a white courtesy phone.&#8221;\n Probably the closest I will get to Michael Kinsley.<\/p>\n<p> Last year, while waiting in I think it was LAX or possibly DEN, I heard the announcement &#8220;Will passenger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/corporate\/pressroom\/html\/?ellisonl.html\"> Larry Ellison<\/a> please pick up a white courtesy phone.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport yesterday, waiting for my flight to eventually be cancelled due to weather, then waiting for a replacement itinerary (um, the weather is the same at the destination; doesn&#8217;t matter which plane you take), then waiting for the replacement to be cancelled also (wow imagine that), I heard an announcement on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-40843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>While in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport yesterday, waiting for my flight to eventually be cancelled due to weather, then waiting for a replacement itinerary (um, the weather is the same at the destination; doesn&#8217;t matter which plane you take), then waiting for the replacement to be cancelled also (wow imagine that), I heard an announcement on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}