{"id":34,"date":"1999-11-23T18:52:24","date_gmt":"1999-11-24T02:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/?p=34"},"modified":"2020-06-13T11:48:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T18:48:01","slug":"europe-1999-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/1999\/11\/23\/europe-1999-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe 1999 Day 1: Los Angeles to London"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Tuesday November 23, 1999<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The day began early as I awoke at 6:00am to take Roger to work so he could go to the airport with me. I spent the bulk of the day packing and running last minute errands, including picking up American Coke and Taco Bell supplies for my friend Joe in Sweden who I was going to visit. At 3pm, I met Roger at his work and we headed off to the airport. Now, British Airways says be there two hours ahead of departure, so I figured making it to LAX from Beverly Hills before 3:30 would be a snap. An hour later we arrived at the airport and proceeded to check in at the desk. I was assigned a middle seat, but was able to get a seat on an aisle after a bit of negotiating. I said goodbye to Roger and headed through the security check-point, where they questioned my 24 AA batteries. I told her about the digital camera and she let me pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did not sleep on the plane. It was a Boeing 747-400 with video screens in the seat backs, so I was able to select from 12 channels of entertainment and watched: An episode of the Saint with Roger Moore, A behind the scenes look at The World is Not Enough, Remington Steele, Absolutely Fabulous, Payback with Mel Gibson, Wild, Wild West the movie, Robbie Williams&#8217; Millenium Video, and Sheryl Crowe&#8217;s Tomorrow Never Dies video (the last two about 3 times). When I looked up, we were ready to land in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday November 23, 1999 The day began early as I awoke at 6:00am to take Roger to work so he could go to the airport with me. I spent the bulk of the day packing and running last minute errands, including picking up American Coke and Taco Bell supplies for my friend Joe in Sweden who I was going to visit. At 3pm, I met Roger at his work and we headed off to the airport. Now, British Airways says be there two hours ahead of departure, so I figured making it to LAX from Beverly Hills before 3:30 would be a snap. An hour later we arrived at the airport and proceeded to check in at the desk. I was assigned a middle seat, but was able to get a seat on an aisle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-1999","tag-europe1999"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/2305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}