{"id":68,"date":"2004-03-11T18:03:33","date_gmt":"2004-03-12T02:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/?p=68"},"modified":"2020-06-09T22:03:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T05:03:25","slug":"japan-2004-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/2004\/03\/11\/japan-2004-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan 2004 Day 1: Los Angeles to Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Thursday March 11, 2004<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The adventure started at LAX where Daniel and I boarded American Eagle #3161, a small commuter plane to fly up to San Jose. American is ready to introduce their non-stop service to Tokyo in a month or so, but right now we have to do the connection in San Jose. For the price we are paying ($399 round trip before taxes) it is worth the hassle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flight to Tokyo, American #129, was great despite the 11+ hours in the air. There was plenty of room thanks to the more room in Coach policy as well as flying onboard a Boeing 777, which felt like a limo with its nice wide-open aisles. The first meal a dinner with some beef product was OK nothing special, but the Pizza lunch was fantastic \u2013 reminded me of the ol\u2019 Great American Burger days. For the last 5 hours of the flight, the woman seated behind me started to have a coughing attack. Other than mild annoyance, I was worries I was going to get sick since the last several trips I had been on, I ended up sick. Fortunately, I have been taking Echinacea and vitamins to try and save off any illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday March 11, 2004 The adventure started at LAX where Daniel and I boarded American Eagle #3161, a small commuter plane to fly up to San Jose. American is ready to introduce their non-stop service to Tokyo in a month or so, but right now we have to do the connection in San Jose. For the price we are paying ($399 round trip before taxes) it is worth the hassle. The flight to Tokyo, American #129, was great despite the 11+ hours in the air. There was plenty of room thanks to the more room in Coach policy as well as flying onboard a Boeing 777, which felt like a limo with its nice wide-open aisles. The first meal a dinner with some beef product was OK nothing special, but the Pizza lunch was fantastic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan-march-2004","tag-japanmar2004"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","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=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1925,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/1925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}