{"id":186550,"date":"2013-12-23T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/23\/packed-like-lemmings-into-shiny-metal-boxes\/"},"modified":"2013-12-23T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T01:51:00","slug":"packed-like-lemmings-into-shiny-metal-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/23\/packed-like-lemmings-into-shiny-metal-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Packed Like Lemmings into Shiny Metal Boxes\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 310px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"169\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fQ8jsqJHVLk\" width=\"300\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>The Source for the Hed<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Kevin Drum <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2013\/12\/unruly-passengers-increased-12x-four-years-i-wonder-why\">muses on the cause of the ever increasing numbers of violent incidents on airlines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He notes that such i<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/travel\/la-fi-mo-airlines-laws-unruly-passengers-20131222,0,5570551.story#axzz2oJelT5iu\">ncidents have increased by more than1200% since 2007<\/a>, and then points to a <i>New York Times<\/i> article, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/23\/business\/on-jammed-jets-sardines-turn-on-one-another.html?hp&amp;pagewanted=all\">On Jammed Jets, Sardines Turn on One Another<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of a &#8220;Well, Duh!&#8221; moment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Contestants in a suicidal race,&#8221; indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Source for the Hed Kevin Drum muses on the cause of the ever increasing numbers of violent incidents on airlines. He notes that such incidents have increased by more than1200% since 2007, and then points to a New York Times article, &#8220;On Jammed Jets, Sardines Turn on One Another.&#8221; It&#8217;s kind of a &#8220;Well, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1005,1181,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-business","category-travel","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186550"}],"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=186550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}