{"id":15738,"date":"2002-07-10T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-10T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/10\/america-west-worst-strikes-again-a-passenger-was\/"},"modified":"2002-07-10T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-10T11:21:00","slug":"america-west-worst-strikes-again-a-passenger-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/10\/america-west-worst-strikes-again-a-passenger-was\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America <strike>West<\/strike> Worst strikes again.  A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2002\/US\/07\/09\/airlines.joke.reut\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">passenger was taken off a recent flight for jokingly asking whether the crew had been checked for sobriety<\/a> (a reference to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/archive\/2002_06_30_archive.html#78467130\" target=\"_blank\">pilot and co-pilot recently being arrested for being under the influence of alcohol while piloting an aircraft<\/a>).  The airline claims that he was removed because he posed a threat to the safety of the flight.  How is that a threat to the safety of the flight?  I guess whoever runs the airline is taking tips from Bud Selig on customer relations&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-78771652?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America West Worst strikes again. A passenger was taken off a recent flight for jokingly asking whether the crew had been checked for sobriety (a reference to a pilot and co-pilot recently being arrested for being under the influence of alcohol while piloting an aircraft). The airline claims that he was removed because he posed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/10\/america-west-worst-strikes-again-a-passenger-was\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}