{"id":470,"date":"2015-07-26T13:32:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T01:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=470"},"modified":"2015-07-27T01:19:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T13:19:29","slug":"sitting-in-terminal-5-at-lax-feeling-basically-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"Sitting In Terminal 5 At LAX, Feeling Basically Human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far, things have been uneventful.<\/p>\n<p>There was the guy who didn&#8217;t want to get off the AirBus at the Ferry Building\/Britomart end, and needed to be <em>persuaded<\/em> by the on-site security.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m guessing that alcohol may be a factor here.<\/p>\n<p>Watched movies most of the way to LA; The Kingsmen, Insurgent, Ex Machina, and some of &#8230; a movie I can&#8217;t remember.<br \/>\nI sort of dozed for a while for parts of the flight, which may have helped.<\/p>\n<p>Jupiter Ascending. That was the other one.<\/p>\n<p>The nice people at US Customs &#038; Border control got <strong><em>really<\/em><\/strong> interested in my travel plans once I said I was unemployed, but were fine with things after I showed an outgoing flight on my itinerary.<br \/>\nHe then forgot to stamp my passport, and so I was called back to do that; ~shrug~ It happens, though was a bit nervousmaking, and I had to walk back up a short section of escalator.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve got automated booth thingies at Terminal B, which kind of work. I <em>think<\/em> they&#8217;re here as a triage system, to filter into lines of lesser &#038; greater attention.<\/p>\n<p>I spent some time sitting on the floor at the Delta terminal, as I couldn&#8217;t check in until 6 hours before the flight.<br \/>\nSaid terminal has no chairs landside, which kind of sucks for the layover crowd.<br \/>\nOn the plus side, there are many chairs airside, plus a Rock &#038; Brews bar\/restaurant who sold me a food &#038; an iced tea <em>(not yet sure whether I like those)<\/em>, while music videos &#038; MMA coverage played on big-ass TVs.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and a guy in a &#8220;Ngapuhi&#8221; shirt wandered by, which was unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, I&#8217;m feeling better-hydrated, better fed, and more relaxed about the four-hour wait for my flight to Indianapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, things have been uneventful. There was the guy who didn&#8217;t want to get off the AirBus at the Ferry Building\/Britomart end, and needed to be persuaded by the on-site security. I&#8217;m guessing that alcohol may be a factor here. Watched movies most of the way to LA; The Kingsmen, Insurgent, Ex Machina, and [&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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday-2015"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3O6N9-7A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}