{"id":3127,"date":"2014-01-16T00:13:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T00:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/wordpress\/?p=3127"},"modified":"2014-01-16T01:30:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T01:30:42","slug":"more-airline-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=3127","title":{"rendered":"More airline horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/slippeddisc\/author\/nlebrecht\" target=\"_blank\">Norman Lebrecht&#8217;<\/a>s great blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/slippeddisc\/2014\/01\/delta-airlines-smashed-my-lute.html\" target=\"_blank\">Slipped Disc<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christopherwilke.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3128\" alt=\"Chris Wilke\" src=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com.c51.previewmysite.eu\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-300x243.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-300x243.jpg 300w, http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-128x103.jpg 128w, http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-250x202.jpg 250w, http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-370x300.jpg 370w, http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>If it\u2019s not the Customs, it\u2019s the US airlines. This message was in from the Lute List:<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hello all,<br \/>\nLast night the soundboard of my 13-course lute was completely smashed after being valet-checked on a flight. (It just happened to be my birthday. Thanks Delta.)<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\">Dr. Christopher Wilke D.M.A.<br \/>\nLutenist, Guitarist and Composer<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christopherwilke.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.christopherwilke.com<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\">There is now an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/slippeddisc\/2014\/01\/heres-what-delta-airline-did-after-they-smashed-my-lute.html\">UPDATE, which is an even grimmer tale, here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/slippeddisc\/2014\/01\/delta-airlines-smashed-my-lute.html\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Norman Lebrecht&#8217;s great blog Slipped Disc If it\u2019s not the Customs, it\u2019s the US airlines. This message was in from the Lute List: Hello all, Last night the soundboard of my 13-course lute was completely smashed after being valet-checked &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=3127\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,5],"tags":[541,286,688],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3131,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions\/3131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}