{"id":6668,"date":"2021-02-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6668"},"modified":"2021-01-28T09:26:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T14:26:53","slug":"still-helicopter-crash-free-after-all-these-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/still-helicopter-crash-free-after-all-these-years\/","title":{"rendered":"STILL HELICOPTER CRASH FREE, AFTER ALL THESE YEARS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My brother from another mother John Strayer reminds me that I\u2019ve forgotten for the first time since that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/dont-be-afraid-of-flying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1\/26\/13 date to commemorate our survival of a helicopter crash<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Mea culpa.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s a sign that I\u2019ve finally gotten over the survival euphoria.&nbsp; (My significant other calls it \u201csurvival mania.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or maybe just a sign that we\u2019re all going through a <em>way <\/em>bigger crash of another sort today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some things don\u2019t change, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John\u2019s lovely wife Terri and my very own Evil Princess still tell us in unison, firmly: \u201cNo! More! Helicopters! <em>&nbsp;EVER!!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we still reply, \u201cAw, we just need bigger, newer helicopters\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, John and I are not winning those arguments\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026but we\u2019re still grateful that we remain here to talk about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brother from another mother John Strayer reminds me that I\u2019ve forgotten for the first time since that 1\/26\/13 date to commemorate our survival of a helicopter crash.&nbsp; Mea culpa. Maybe it\u2019s a sign that I\u2019ve finally gotten over the survival euphoria.&nbsp; (My significant other calls it \u201csurvival mania.\u201d) Or maybe just a sign that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6670,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions\/6670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}