{"id":1127,"date":"2006-10-01T13:42:31","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T18:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/paree\/"},"modified":"2006-10-01T13:43:39","modified_gmt":"2006-10-01T18:43:39","slug":"paree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/paree","title":{"rendered":"Paree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We made it to Paris, dear readers, but your Virtual Memoirist and his wife are all sorts of wiped out. I took some pix this afternoon, but haven&#8217;t had time to download them. I hope to tomorrow morning, then post them up to flickr.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there were a couple of things we simply couldn&#8217;t take pictures of: <\/p>\n<p>a) the girl going through security at Newark who was wearing VERY low-risers and a black thong, which led me to nickname her &#8220;Ms. Texas Longhorn&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>b) the sign in the Newark terminal that read, &#8220;Tel Aviv customers go to gate [xxx] for secure boarding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ouch. Anyway, the flight was uneventful. I wasn&#8217;t interested in watching any of the in-flight flicks, but a <em>lot<\/em> of passengers were all over <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0452594\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Break-up<\/a>, in which Jennifer Anniston&#8217;s role appeared to be that of mannequin who wears a variety of cocktail dresses.<\/p>\n<p>More tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We made it to Paris, dear readers, but your Virtual Memoirist and his wife are all sorts of wiped out. I took some pix this afternoon, but haven&#8217;t had time to download them. I hope to tomorrow morning, then post them up to flickr. Unfortunately, there were a couple of things we simply couldn&#8217;t take &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/paree\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paree&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paris","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4C7K-paree","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":496,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/msyricewr","url_meta":{"origin":1127,"position":0},"title":"MSY\/RIC\/EWR","author":"Gil","date":"March 29, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Took a convoluted path home from New Orleans. 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Stacked in a holding pattern in awful crosswinds (hint: don't put small, light airplanes in holding patterns during\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":110,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/a-sort-of-homecoming","url_meta":{"origin":1127,"position":3},"title":"A Sort of Homecoming","author":"Gil","date":"December 6, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sitting in LAX right now, waiting about 90 minutes for my flight back to Newark. This follows 2 hours from Queenstown to Auckland, and 12 hours from Auckland to LA. 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