{"id":74,"date":"2002-03-20T11:05:42","date_gmt":"2002-03-20T11:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgunter.com\/words\/?p=74"},"modified":"2013-05-24T19:09:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T19:09:50","slug":"sunny-side-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/2002\/03\/20\/sunny-side-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunny Side Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20020408094921\/http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/printable\/?critics\/020325crbo_books\">2002 New Yorker article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When people talk about the need to modernize the American air-traffic-control system, this is, in large part, what they are referring to. Whenever a plane takes off, the basic data about the flight\u2014the type of plane, the radar I.D. number, the requested altitude, the destination\u2014are printed out on a stiff piece of paper, perhaps one and a half by six and a half inches, known as a flight strip. And as the plane passes through each sector of the airspace the controller jots down, using a kind of shorthand, everything new that is happening to the plane\u2014its speed, say, and where it&#8217;s heading, clearances from ground control, holding instructions, comments on the pilot. It&#8217;s a method that dates back to the days before radar, and it drives critics of the air-traffic-control system crazy. Why, in this day and age, are planes being handled like breakfast orders in a roadside diner?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At least I&#8217;ll still get my breakfast in the event of a computer crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a 2002 New Yorker article: &#8220;When people talk about the need to modernize the American air-traffic-control system, this is, in large part, what they are referring to. Whenever a plane takes off, the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}