{"id":1433,"date":"2015-12-30T22:43:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T03:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2015-12-31T00:08:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T05:08:22","slug":"oversold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2015\/12\/30\/oversold","title":{"rendered":"Oversold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I flew on an airplane yesterday, coming back from my aforementioned Christmas travel (never again!), but I almost didn&#8217;t fly on an airplane yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>I checked my suitcase and got a security pass or something rather than an actual boarding pass. No earthly idea why, just the way that airline rolls I guess. I get to my gate to get my boarding pass and then I&#8217;m told &#8220;Flight is oversold and everyone else is checked in. You stay behind.&#8221; And I&#8217;m like &#8220;I already checked my suitcase! Can I have it back?&#8221; And they&#8217;re like &#8220;No, that&#8217;s going to Dulles. You stay behind.&#8221; They go on about denied boarding compensation, admittedly a nice sum that would be quite a bit more than the amount I would lose by missing work the next day, but my concern was that I wanted to go home, and it was cold and my coat was in my suitcase. They said that if someone volunteers as tribute for said compensation, I would then be able to board. And, fortunately, that&#8217;s exactly what happened. Thanks, unknown volunteer!<\/p>\n<p>Why the fuck did that even happen? Who lets you check your suitcase and then be like &#8220;you wanted to board a plane you paid a bunch of money to fly on? LOL nope!&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Also, when I booked this round trip a month ago, I got an error message when I went to confirm the purchase because between getting to the final page to enter info and clicking &#8220;confirm&#8221;, the fare for the return flight went up $95. -_-<\/p>\n<p>Meh. Let&#8217;s close out this year already&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/stringlights.gif\" title=\"Merry Christmas!\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I flew on an airplane yesterday, coming back from my aforementioned Christmas travel (never again!), but I almost didn&#8217;t fly on an airplane yesterday. I checked my suitcase and got a security pass or something rather than an actual boarding pass. No earthly idea why, just the way that airline rolls I guess. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2015\/12\/30\/oversold\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oversold&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-time","category-going-places","category-what-the-hell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}