{"id":1671,"date":"2010-04-16T13:42:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T19:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2010-04-16T13:50:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T19:50:26","slug":"connecting-flight-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/connecting-flight-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting Flight Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1784\" style=\"border: 0px;background: none\" title=\"IMHO:)\" src=\"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/imho-smile-150x88.png\" alt=\"IMHO:)\" width=\"150\" height=\"88\" srcset=\"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/imho-smile-150x88.png 150w, http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/imho-smile-300x176.png 300w, http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/imho-smile.png 369w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0operate under the assumption that I should be on-time for whatever activity or responsibility I have planned. While some delays can&#8217;t be avoided, they could be anticipated. Over the years, I have built a vast database of travel nuances, patterns, and habits that have\u00a0become my\u00a0guiding\u00a0principles in getting from place to place. One of these precepts is my <strong>CONNECTING FLIGHT THEORY.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This concept is based on <strong>TIME<\/strong> and <strong>DISTANCE<\/strong>. I postulate that when taking more than one flight to get to\u00a0some destination, the\u00a0connecting flight\u00a0is\u00a0<em>always<\/em> <em>on TIME<\/em>. It doesn&#8217;t matter when I depart from\u00a0my original starting point, it makes no difference\u00a0how delayed I might be in taking off, it really doesn&#8217;t matter how much time is &#8220;made-up in the air&#8221;\u00a0during the first part of my journey, an on-time departure of my connecting flight is virtually guaranteed!<\/p>\n<p>The second part of my theory<em> <\/em>is that the <strong>departure<\/strong> <strong>gate<\/strong> of that\u00a0next flight is <em>always at a DISTANCE <\/em>that exceeds physical punctuality. The mathematical geniuses of airport design have deemed that the greatest distance between two points is usually my connecting gate. In most cases, I have just enough time to make it to an area where my gate is visible, but the door\u00a0seems to be\u00a0slowly closing, as if whispering &#8220;if you only got here a minute ago&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Knowing that a short connection time is a recipe for failure, I always make sure I have at least 90 minutes between connections. But,\u00a0I go to the gym regularly to maintain my ability to sprint, just in case!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0operate under the assumption that I should be on-time for whatever activity or responsibility I have planned. While some delays can&#8217;t be avoided, they could be anticipated. Over the years, I have built a vast database of travel nuances, patterns, and habits that have\u00a0become my\u00a0guiding\u00a0principles in getting from place to place. One of these precepts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPH93-qX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1832,"href":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}