{"id":4127,"date":"2011-01-05T17:45:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T21:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=4127"},"modified":"2011-01-05T17:45:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T21:45:01","slug":"pilot-spills-coffee-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/01\/05\/pilot-spills-coffee-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversion Verse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airplane Piloting 101: If you <strong>must<\/strong> spill coffee, spill it on your co-pilot &#8230; and <strong>not<\/strong> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/TRAVEL\/01\/05\/canada.flight.diverted\/index.html?hpt=T2\">plane&#8217;s communication&#8217;s equipment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA United Airlines flight from Chicago to Frankfurt, Germany, was diverted to Toronto this week after the pilot dumped a cup of coffee on the plane&#8217;s communication&#8217;s equipment. The unwanted liquid triggered a series of emergency codes, including one for a hijacking, according to Transport Canada, the agency that regulates transportation in Canada.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Diversion Verse<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A pilot with coffee needs skills<br \/>\nTo captain his plane without spills.<br \/>\nSo I don&#8217;t mean to grouse,<br \/>\nBut kindly don&#8217;t douse<br \/>\nThe controls, cuz that&#8217;s flying no-frills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airplane Piloting 101: If you must spill coffee, spill it on your co-pilot &#8230; and not on the plane&#8217;s communication&#8217;s equipment. A United Airlines flight from Chicago to Frankfurt, Germany, was diverted to Toronto this week after the pilot dumped a cup of coffee on the plane&#8217;s communication&#8217;s equipment. The unwanted liquid triggered a series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1059,41,3,6],"tags":[1571,1572,817,545,1707,1706,1703,1465,4905,1704,1705],"class_list":["post-4127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clumsiness-humor","category-food-drink-humor","category-technology-humor","category-travel-humor","tag-airline-gripes","tag-airplane-trips","tag-coffee-drinks-humor","tag-coffee-verse","tag-electronic-equipment","tag-emergency-landing","tag-pilots","tag-transportation","tag-travel-humor","tag-travel-poetry","tag-united-airlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4127"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4132,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127\/revisions\/4132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}