{"id":3922,"date":"2019-05-14T02:12:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T08:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3922"},"modified":"2019-05-14T02:12:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T08:12:03","slug":"this-plane-accidentally-flew-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3922","title":{"rendered":"This Plane Accidentally Flew Around The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/s\/story\/the-long-way-round-the-plane-that-accidentally-circumnavigated-the-world-c04ca734c6bb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/fe232-1ft9kkhq2etlvh9atlq9xeq.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The morning of 6th January 1942 was going to be a cold one. Not that this was unusual for New York, mused the night-shift air controller at LaGuardia&#8217;s tower, but it did mean he&#8217;d have to wrap up\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In the event that you are required to open and read these instructions, you may assume that hostilities have already occurred and that the aircraft under your command represents a strategic military resource which must be protected and secured from falling into enemy hands\u2026&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A three-part series. Fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood, why isn&#8217;t this a movie?<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/s\/story\/the-long-way-round-the-plane-that-accidentally-circumnavigated-the-world-c04ca734c6bb\">This Plane Accidentally Flew Around The World<\/a> \u2013 Part One<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/lapsed-historian\/the-long-way-round-part-2-dff698a18a60\">The Long Way Round: Ice Cold in Auckland<\/a> \u2013 Part Two<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/lapsed-historian\/the-long-way-round-part-3-70a315c26788\">The Long Way Round: Getting Home<\/a> \u2013 Part Three<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The morning of 6th January 1942 was going to be a cold one. Not that this was unusual for New York, mused the night-shift air controller at LaGuardia&#8217;s tower, but it did mean he&#8217;d have to wrap up\u2026 * * * &#8220;In the event that you are required to open and read these instructions, you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3922\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Plane Accidentally Flew Around The World<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}