{"id":5601,"date":"2012-10-06T00:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/struth-for-crying-out-loud\/"},"modified":"2012-10-06T00:32:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T00:32:00","slug":"struth-for-crying-out-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/10\/struth-for-crying-out-loud\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! For crying out loud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-M2SxNxgUdrQ\/UG98PQwD7KI\/AAAAAAAAZBc\/WUo7ih1uQQ0\/s1600\/Plane%2Bbribe-781311.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-M2SxNxgUdrQ\/UG98PQwD7KI\/AAAAAAAAZBc\/WUo7ih1uQQ0\/s320\/Plane%2Bbribe-781311.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5795987847085550754\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says passengers boarding a short domestic flight in the US earlier this month were surprised to find a plastic bag of lollies on every seat in the second Economy Class compartment \u2013 and a note inside it apologising in advance for any screaming from two 14-week old twin boys making their first flight, plus the offer of ear-plugs available from their parents (see picture.)<\/p>\n<p>And a passenger who snapped the bag and its note and posted it on a website certainly started something they didn&#8217;t expect: the site got over 1.5 million views and drew 3000+ comments in just two days.<\/p>\n<p>Most respondents lauded the parents for their thoughtfulness, although some were pretty blunt as to their views about even allowing young children on planes.<\/p>\n<p>And one suggested that instead of all the lollies, the bag could also have contained a complimentary couple of Xanax tablets for other passengers \u2013 pills used to control nervous tension and anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says passengers boarding a short domestic flight in the US earlier this month were surprised to find a plastic bag of lollies on every seat in the second Economy Class compartment \u2013 and a note inside it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-5601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}