{"id":186,"date":"2009-03-05T09:06:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T16:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/2009\/03\/05\/186\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T09:06:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T16:06:09","slug":"flight-5202","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/2009\/03\/05\/186\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight 5202"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blogSubject\"><label id=\"pBlogSubject_474763051\">Flight 5202<\/label><label style=\"display: none\" id=\"translatedBlogSubject_474763051\"><\/label><br \/>\nCurrent mood:\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/x.myspacecdn.com\/images\/blog\/moods\/iBrads\/happy.gif\" \/>\u00a0happy<br \/>\n<strong>Category:<\/strong> Travel and Places<\/p>\n<p><!--- blog body ---><\/p>\n<p id=\"pBlogBody_474763051\" class=\"blogContent\">\n<p class=\"post-footer\">\n<p class=\"post-footer-line post-footer-line-3\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-footer-line post-footer-line-3\"><font color=\"#666666\">\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i431.photobucket.com\/albums\/qq40\/AJLlewellyn_album\/asa_airlines-gadling.png\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"post-footer-line post-footer-line-3\">I don\u2019t know about you but I am sick of reading bad news. I am sick of the news hogs. I am sick of that crazy Octomom, Brangelina vs Jen, the bad economy, the stock market, that idiot guy from <em>The Bachelor<\/em>. I am <em>farklempt<\/em> that <em>American Idol<\/em> is so lousy this year, over-filled with talent-free yahoos with their fake, hysterical tears and delusions of glory. I\u2019m upset that Farrah Fawcett has cancer, my favorite <em>Monkee<\/em> Peter Tork has cancer and I am sick, SICK that New York hotel room prices keep falling, whilst Hawaii rates climb higher and higher\u2026<br \/>\nSo I am latching onto good news. I like being a happy, peppy guy and I, for some inexplicable reason feel the need to blog about historic Flight 5202.<br \/>\nYep, Flight 5202 made aviation history. On Monday, for the first time in history, an all-female, African American flight crew\u2026er..manned -womanned? &#8211; a domestic flight.<br \/>\nCaptain Rachelle Jones, First Officer Stephanie Grant, and flight attendants Diana Galloway and Robin Rogers brought a lot of joy to travelers of Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 5202 to Nashville &#8211; but still the newshounds want to drivel about\u2026Octomom.<br \/>\nASA has three female African American pilots, itself a bit of a record because there are only 10 female African American flight captains in US aviation history.<br \/>\nI wasn\u2019t on the flight, but wish I had been judging by some of the comments people have posted about these four women.<br \/>\nCaptain Jones and Officer Grant have plenty to be proud of\u2026on February 12, just a few weeks before their historic flight, they broke new\u2026er\u2026ground &#8211; air?? &#8211; making history for being the first all American- American female crew to operate a commercial jet revenue flight Atlantic Southeast Airlines.<br \/>\nI caught a tape online of Captain Jones\u2019 comment as she touched ground after her historic flight. This is what she said:<br \/>\n\u201cIt still hasn\u2019t hit me now. I was just excited. I called my mom, my family and said guess what happened today.\u201d<br \/>\nI hope she is still smiling. I hope she knows she has inspired a lot of young people out there who maybe stopped believing in dreams. I know she\u2019s inspired me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-footer-line post-footer-line-3\">\nAloha oe,<br \/>\nA.J.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flight 5202 Current mood:\u00a0\u00a0happy Category: Travel and Places &nbsp; \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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I don\u2019t know about you but I am sick of reading bad news. I am sick of the news hogs. I am sick of that crazy Octomom, Brangelina vs Jen, the bad economy, the stock market, that idiot guy from The Bachelor. I am farklempt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latestnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}