{"id":7200,"date":"2017-01-18T20:16:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T02:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7200"},"modified":"2017-01-25T09:19:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T15:19:48","slug":"on-approach-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7200","title":{"rendered":"On Approach: Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/01\/IMG_5490b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/01\/IMG_5815b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Flying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcmap.com\/mapui?P=FRA-MLA\">south<\/a>, above the Alps.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/01\/DSC09602b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/01\/DSC09609.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/01\/DSC09614.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/01\/DSC09615.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/01\/DSC09616.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It was a gorgeous, but unusually chilly afternoon upon arrival in Malta.  The sun offered a stunning backdrop for our Lufthansa A320.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/01\/DSC09619b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Glancing east from our bus to the terminal, I smiled as the lead flight attendant helped a family disembark.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/01\/DSC09622b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Malta via <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malta\">wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Book: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/82471.The_Kappillan_of_Malta\">The Kappillan of Malta by Nicholas Monsarrat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Apostle Paul was shipwrecked on <a href=\"http:\/\/pauls-journeys.com\/the-apostle-pauls-shipwreck-1\/\">Malta<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Acts+27%3A27-28%3A5&#038;version=NIV\">Acts 27<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying south, above the Alps. It was a gorgeous, but unusually chilly afternoon upon arrival in Malta. The sun offered a stunning backdrop for our Lufthansa A320. Glancing east from our bus to the terminal, I smiled as the lead flight attendant helped a family disembark. Malta via wikipedia. Book: The Kappillan of Malta by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7200"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7214,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200\/revisions\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}