{"id":14517,"date":"2012-06-02T11:05:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T17:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=14517"},"modified":"2012-06-02T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T22:21:00","slug":"buna-ziua-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=14517","title":{"rendered":"Buna Ziua, America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Garlic Moon<\/p>\n<p>Back. \u00a0Difficult journey. \u00a0Flight to Minneapolis canceled without notification. \u00a0Rebooked. \u00a0Ran. \u00a0Barely made the plane in Schipol, the Amsterdam airport. \u00a0Sit down for 8 hours. \u00a0Get to Atlanta, new destination. \u00a0Arrive at gate. \u00a0New international terminal with automatic gate extenders. \u00a0Hmm. Not so automatic. \u00a020 minutes later. \u00a0&#8220;Still a problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Finally. \u00a0Then, the whole Welcome to America gauntlet. \u00a0Jetway, passport control, baggage (no baggage. \u00a0sigh. \u00a0should I wait and possibly miss my connection? \u00a0no, I wanna go home.) \u00a0Customs. \u00a0Walk to train. \u00a0Take train to concourse A. \u00a0Long walk to escalator. \u00a0Where&#8217;s gate 28? \u00a0Not the farthest, but almost.<\/p>\n<p>Run. \u00a0Gate closed and locked. \u00a0Please let me on this plane. \u00a0Sympathy. \u00a0Door unlocked and on plane. \u00a0Arrive home 6 hours later than planned with no bags. \u00a0 12:30 am. \u00a0But. \u00a0I&#8217;m adjusted now to Romanian time. \u00a0So, it&#8217;s 8:30 am. \u00a0I can drive home !<\/p>\n<p>Crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Garlic Moon Back. \u00a0Difficult journey. \u00a0Flight to Minneapolis canceled without notification. \u00a0Rebooked. \u00a0Ran. \u00a0Barely made the plane in Schipol, the Amsterdam airport. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=14517\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Buna Ziua, America<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-general","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14519,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14517\/revisions\/14519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}