{"id":634,"date":"2010-11-28T21:56:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T04:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/?p=634"},"modified":"2010-11-28T21:56:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T04:56:28","slug":"asleep-at-the-yoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/2010\/11\/28\/asleep-at-the-yoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Asleep at the yoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been itching to go flying lately but every weekend seems like it has been overcast with fowl weather.  Today we looked out the window and saw blue skies. It was a bit gusty but I asked Ava if she wanted to go flying and she responded with an enthusiastic &#8220;Yes!&#8221; so we reserved a plane for a few hours this afternoon and just flew around for fun and I did some practice landings to stay proficient.<\/p>\n<p>I put Ava in the airplane (her first time in the front seat!), did the preflight, then we taxied for a few minutes and finally did an engine runup. We taxied up to the runway hold line, got clearance for takeoff, and Ava asked &#8220;Now can we fly, daddy?&#8221;.  I said we are taking off now, here we go!<\/p>\n<p>So we are on our initial climbout, and I look over at Ava about 10 seconds after we tookoff and she is fast asleep. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>She almost always falls asleep in the airplane. Must be the drone of the engine and the warmth of the heater.<\/p>\n<p>She stayed asleep till we were on final approach at Emmett and awoke just as we were landing there.  Ava had a great time looking for rattlesnakes in the foothills (one of her current interests is snakes). She says she spotted one from 5000&#8217;&#8230; I didn&#8217;t see it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/scottandjenn\/5215167777\/\" title=\"IMG_4437.JPG by scott.fuhrman, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4083\/5215167777_9900bfcded.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_4437.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been itching to go flying lately but every weekend seems like it has been overcast with fowl weather. Today we looked out the window and saw blue skies. It was a bit gusty but I asked Ava if she wanted to go flying and she responded with an enthusiastic &#8220;Yes!&#8221; so we reserved a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}