{"id":243,"date":"2005-05-14T23:10:10","date_gmt":"2005-05-14T23:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/14\/the-good-life\/"},"modified":"2005-05-14T23:10:10","modified_gmt":"2005-05-14T23:10:10","slug":"the-good-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2005\/05\/the-good-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was not like any other trip. <\/p>\n<p>The baggage tag was red in colour, not the usual blue.&nbsp; After I&#8217;d checked in my luggage, the lady invited me to use the facilities of the lounge, should I so desire.&nbsp; The lounge, as it turned out, was well-stocked with steaming coffee and fresh croissants.&nbsp; When it was time to board, I moved onto the Security desk and found that I did not need to stand in the never ending line.&nbsp; The seats on the aircraft were quite spacious and had generous legroom.&nbsp; The staff was quite courteous, and did not seem to be in a hurry to finish one task after another.&nbsp; Someone brought me a choice of magazines and newspapers to read!&nbsp; The food served was of surprisingly good quality, and the airhostess even persuaded me to take another helping of their ham-and-cheese sandwich.&nbsp; <em>Every<\/em> thing seemed just a little bit better than normal; even the view of the sunset from 32,000 feet above sea level.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, thanks to the generosity of a colleague who arranged for an &#8216;upgrade voucher&#8217;, I got the opportunity to fly Business Class this week!&nbsp; And, by the end of it, I was wishing the flight wasn&#8217;t just an hour long&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The baggage tag was red in colour, not the usual blue.  After I&#8217;d checked in my luggage, the lady invited me to use the facilities of the lounge, should I so desire.  The lounge, as it turned out, was well-stocked with steaming coffee and fresh croissants&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}