{"id":703,"date":"2008-06-17T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=703"},"modified":"2010-01-11T23:39:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T23:39:31","slug":"the-tide-turns-george-w-bush-irritates-a-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2008\/06\/the-tide-turns-george-w-bush-irritates-a-blogger.html","title":{"rendered":"The tide turns: George W. Bush irritates a blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/bushplane.jpg\" title=\"Where's Gary Oldman when you need him?\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This time he&#8217;s really gone too far.  As part of his farewell tour of screwing up bits of the world wherever he goes, Bush decided to arrive at Heathrow at about the same time as my terrible, bumpy, putrid, disease-ridden 23-hour <a title=\"It was cheap. First and last time.\">Qantas flight<\/a> from Melbourne.  Thus my journey ended with an extra hour of sitting cooped up in Economy on the tarmac about 20 metres from the arrivals gate, waiting for Air Force One to land, fanny about on the taxiway and disgorge its toxic cargo into a trio of US helicopters.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">We were probably the unauthorised plebs with the clearest plain view of the whole ritual.  My girlfriend took some photos of POTUS and his posse, but she was using a phone from an aisle seat so the shots all came out looking like she photographed her own armpit under a blanket.  Some <s>friendly Brits<\/s>Australians in the window seats got us the plane photo.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another black eye for the British.  It took only one American to bring Heathrow Airport to a standstill, something it usually takes thousands of British airport staff to achieve.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time he&#8217;s really gone too far. As part of his farewell tour of screwing up bits of the world wherever he goes, Bush decided to arrive at Heathrow at about the same time as my terrible, bumpy, putrid, disease-ridden 23-hour Qantas flight from Melbourne. Thus my journey ended with an extra hour of sitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3952,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/3952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}