{"id":326,"date":"2009-11-16T17:52:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T22:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/blog\/?p=326"},"modified":"2009-11-16T17:52:30","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T22:52:30","slug":"what-a-neat-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/16\/what-a-neat-present\/","title":{"rendered":"What a neat present!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was totally surprised at today’s UCG-Germany National Council meeting when the board gave me a special present.<\/p>\n

As recognition for the many hours I worked overtime on the new German hymnal to finish it by the Feast, \"JU-52 the UCG-Germany National Council, along with editorial staff member Jesmina Allaoua, chipped in to buy me a souvenir flight on the legendary "JU-52", a transport plane used by Germany during World War II. There are only a few airworthy machines left, and souvenir flights are offered on one of them during the warm months of the year at the small Hangelar airport near Bonn. Several times I have seen the plane flying along the Rhine River near our church office, and on one occasion I described it to Jesmina as it flew overhead. On behalf of the group, at the start of today’s meeting vice-chairman Kurt Schmitz presented me the "boarding pass" for a 45 minute flight sometime next year, so I will have to write a blog entry about the flight when it takes place. Thanks everyone for the neat present!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was totally surprised at today’s UCG-Germany National Council meeting when the board gave me a special present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}