{"id":457,"date":"2011-09-07T15:01:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T20:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/blog\/?p=457"},"modified":"2011-09-07T15:01:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T20:01:32","slug":"bavarians-on-the-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/07\/bavarians-on-the-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Bavarians on the plane!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Delta flight 14 from Atlanta to Frankfurt was a bit unusual.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Obviously I cannot count how many Germans are on the flights I take between Germany and USA, but today&#8217;s flight had a large number of Bavarians on the plane. How could I tell? By their distinctive Bavarian accent! Summer school vacation for Germany&#8217;s federal states is staggered on a rotating basis, but Bavaria always goes last. As a result, Bavaria&#8217;s summer vacation ends in September, and I guess a number of those on the plane were getting back to Germany for a few days rest before school starts again. Right before boarding they asked for one volunteer to be bumped onto a later flight to Brussels and then on to Frankfurt in exchange for a $600 flight voucher. I was considering it and was about to volunteer when a young lady holding a German passport beat me to the counter. A Bavarian, perhaps? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Delta flight 14 from Atlanta to Frankfurt was a bit unusual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-back-in-the-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","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=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}