{"id":145,"date":"2007-12-04T18:10:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T23:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/2007\/12\/04\/walking-from-london-to-new-york\/"},"modified":"2007-12-04T18:10:48","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T23:10:48","slug":"walking-from-london-to-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Walking from London to New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2007\/12\/02\/interview_with_will_self\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.will-self.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Will Self<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He would hike for hours through the exurbs of London until he reached Heathrow; next he would scramble up an oily embankment and scoot around a chain-link fence to dash straight into the airport terminal; then he would sleep on the plane, for all purposes erasing the flight from memory; then, once he reached JFK Airport, he would sneak along a service road, hoping not to be apprehended as a terrorist, and begin the long trek to the Lower East Side. Will Self, the son of a Yank and a Brit, was about to sew two cities into one imaginary metropolis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Will Self, the author of a book the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1596914661\/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&amp;coliid=I32K4K2XW1N5XL&amp;colid=1A3ORIBEHDKE\" target=\"_blank\">Psychogeography:Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place<\/a> on the polite rules against having sex in the private cabins aborb the new Airbus A380<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That sums up the attitude toward flying: Put people in a metal fuselage, throw them up into the sky, haul them across thousands of miles of sea and desert, and then you expect them not to get excited. But it is exciting. It is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have to agree with him, <strong>I still think flying is exciting <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an interview with Will Self, He would hike for hours through the exurbs of London until he reached Heathrow; next he would scramble up an oily embankment and scoot around a chain-link fence to dash straight into the airport terminal; then he would sleep on the plane, for all purposes erasing the flight from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orphan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}