{"id":1510,"date":"2009-11-03T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/03\/three-cheers-for-southwest-airlines"},"modified":"2009-11-03T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T19:05:00","slug":"three-cheers-for-southwest-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1510","title":{"rendered":"Three cheers for Southwest Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Southwest Airlines had little for which to apologize when a flight crew departing Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport evicted a woman and her screaming child.<\/p>\n<p>The tot began hollering when he and his mom &#8212; a native of Dumas &#8212; boarded a flight on Oct. 26 at AMA bound for San Jose, Calif. They were here visiting a sick family member. The boy&#8217;s screeching became uncontrollable. Imagine flying 1,000 or so miles having to listen to that racket.<\/p>\n<p>The flight crew couldn&#8217;t get the tot quiet, so mother and child were ordered off the plane, reportedly to a rousing ovation from grateful passengers.<\/p>\n<p>If the airline owed them an apology, it only was for the failure to fetch the passengers&#8217; luggage so they could take it on a later flight. But that&#8217;s as far as it goes.<\/p>\n<p>Air travel isn&#8217;t much fun in this post-9\/11 era. Those who have flown much since then know what I&#8217;m talking about. Passengers need not have to endure screamers at 35,000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>Good going, flight crew.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Airlines had little for which to apologize when a flight crew departing Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport evicted a woman and her screaming child. The tot began hollering when he and his mom &#8212; a native of Dumas &#8212; boarded a flight on Oct. 26 at AMA bound for San Jose, Calif. They were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1510\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three cheers for Southwest Airlines<\/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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}