{"id":964,"date":"2007-09-18T19:51:03","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T02:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=964"},"modified":"2007-09-18T19:53:57","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T02:53:57","slug":"frequent-flier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=964","title":{"rendered":"Frequent flier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our recent trip was Zoe&#8217;s sixth jaunt out of the state, and our last plane ride marked her 18th one. Although I fret before each ride (Will she be uncomfortable? Will she cry a lot? Will everyone on the plane hate us?), we&#8217;ve been pretty lucky with our air travel. We&#8217;ve had a few unpleasant moments, of course &#8211; but all in all, things have gone smoothly and we&#8217;ve picked up lots of good traveling tips.<\/p>\n<p>Someone once told me that friendly flight attendants can make all the difference in the world when traveling with children &#8211; and I couldn&#8217;t agree more! We&#8217;ve had flight attendants give Zoe little toys and free food, and others have let me hog the back of the plane to rock Zoe (even though other passengers weren&#8217;t allowed to linger there). And on this last trip, we even had a mini-babysitter of sorts: the flight attendant scooped up Zoe in the middle of the flight and told us, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to take her up to first-class!&#8221; She then marched up to the front the plane and walked a very surprised Zoe up and down the aisle with her. As we were deboarding, a man sitting behind us said he had never seen such a popular baby on a flight! We couldn&#8217;t help but smile.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a pic of Zoe on the flight &#8211; and one with her new flight-attendant friend.<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image962\" alt=close-up-on-plane.JPG src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/close-up-on-plane.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image963\" alt=zoe-and-flight-attendant.JPG src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/zoe-and-flight-attendant.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our recent trip was Zoe&#8217;s sixth jaunt out of the state, and our last plane ride marked her 18th one. Although I fret before each ride (Will she be uncomfortable? Will she cry a lot? Will everyone on the plane hate us?), we&#8217;ve been pretty lucky with our air travel. We&#8217;ve had a few unpleasant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12nine-to-ten-months"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}