{"id":18729,"date":"2017-05-08T20:18:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T01:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18729"},"modified":"2017-05-08T20:18:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T01:18:28","slug":"splendid-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18729","title":{"rendered":"Splendid isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I give a lot of credit to airline flight attendants in coach class.  They have a very stressful job, and are dealing with a lot of grumpy people.  In my experience, flight attendants in coach have been very professional and expert at dealing with a situation that isn&#8217;t pleasant for anybody.<\/p>\n<p>But I must say that my flight from Frankfurt to NY had one perk:  I got an enormous amount of work done.  Lufthansa&#8217;s policy of providing an electric outlet at every seat didn&#8217;t hurt.  And the fact that I had an aisle seat in a half empty plane didn&#8217;t hurt either.<\/p>\n<p>The delight of finding an empty seat next to you in coach class never gets old.  Sure, you are still uncomfortable, but you are not actually suffering.<\/p>\n<p>And on this flight, that feeling of delight fueled a surge of creative energy.  For six hours it was just me and my trusty MacBook computer, working happily together in splendid isolation.<\/p>\n<p>Today, despite my jet lag, I am still riding that wave of creative energy, and still getting loads of work done.  With any luck, I&#8217;ll be able to ride this wave all the way to the next flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I give a lot of credit to airline flight attendants in coach class. They have a very stressful job, and are dealing with a lot of grumpy people. In my experience, flight attendants in coach have been very professional and expert at dealing with a situation that isn&#8217;t pleasant for anybody. But I must say &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18729\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Splendid isolation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18729"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18730,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18729\/revisions\/18730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}