{"id":556,"date":"2016-11-29T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonelkon.com\/?p=556"},"modified":"2016-11-30T19:21:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T19:21:38","slug":"travels-with-a-banana-and-some-wild-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/travels-with-a-banana-and-some-wild-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Travels with a Banana and some Angry Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To Zumania or Bust!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heathrow again! This time Terminal 3. My last flight 3 weeks ago was from Terminal 5 and the walk from terminal entrance to plane totalled 1.9 km. So far I have walked 1 Km in T3. Not great carrying a banana, and having left the walking stick in the minicab. The walking stick is Just In Case.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not all\u00a0that&#8217;s just in case. Literally.<\/p>\n<p>See, I suffer from wild birds in the chest area. The proper medical term is Atrial Fibrillation which just means, owing to an electrical fault, the heart feels as if a bunch of wild birds are fighting to break free. Now and then. Not often. Really badly on the flight back from San Diego. (I told no-one until now.) But luckily I always carry emergency meds in my wallet so I necked them fast and the avian monsters were chemically pacified.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, reader, I forgot to replace them. So the meds are n the suitcase. And the suitcase is in the belly of the bird waiting to convey me from here to there.<\/p>\n<p>The worst that can happen is a stroke. This would be a nuisance, not for me but for everyone else. Watch this space! If I survive the journey the next letter will be from Cape Town!<\/p>\n<p>Strategies to Overcome the Raptor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meditation<\/p>\n<p>Reading<\/p>\n<p>Movie<\/p>\n<p>Herbal sleepers<\/p>\n<p>Not going to use prayer. That&#8217;ll show You!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See ya&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Zumania or Bust! Heathrow again! This time Terminal 3. My last flight 3 weeks ago was from Terminal 5 and the walk from terminal entrance to plane totalled 1.9 km. So far I have walked 1 Km in T3&#8230;.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}