{"id":186352,"date":"2014-02-20T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/02\/20\/what-i-really-hate-about-united-airlines\/"},"modified":"2014-02-20T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T01:43:00","slug":"what-i-really-hate-about-united-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/02\/20\/what-i-really-hate-about-united-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Really Hate About United Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 260px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"141\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ynEOo28lsbc\" width=\"251\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>On Hold for <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Hours<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<p>If you read of my recent travel problems, I should note that they were <b>all<\/b> weather related, and everyone at United was polite, and efficient, energetic, and quite competent.<\/p>\n<p>I really mean that.<\/p>\n<p>But, because of the inevitable consequences of the snowtastrophe, it meant that I spent hours on hold.<\/p>\n<p>And United has licensed George Gershwin&#8217;s <i>Rhapsody in Blue<\/i> as its theme, and so it is their on hold music.<\/p>\n<p>So I heard it for hours \u2026\u2026\u2026 <b>and hours<\/b> \u2026\u2026\u2026 <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">and hours<\/span><\/b>&nbsp; \u2026\u2026\u2026 <span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\"><b>AND HOURS<\/b><\/span> \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a musical masterpiece, and I can no longer listen to it.<\/p>\n<p>UAL, drop <i>Rhapsody in Blue<\/i> as your hold music, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Hold for Hours If you read of my recent travel problems, I should note that they were all weather related, and everyone at United was polite, and efficient, energetic, and quite competent. I really mean that. But, because of the inevitable consequences of the snowtastrophe, it meant that I spent hours on hold. And &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1158,1167,1007,1005,1067,1137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aggravation","category-art","category-aviation","category-business","category-communications","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}