{"id":8721,"date":"2021-02-20T16:52:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T22:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8721"},"modified":"2021-02-20T20:04:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T02:04:24","slug":"random","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8721","title":{"rendered":"Random"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two recent obituaries.<\/p>\n

Darwin Ness<\/a><\/p>\n

We frequently worshipped with Darwin Saturday evenings. Observing his drive, devotion and faith was humbling, to say the least.<\/p>\n

David Villa<\/a><\/p>\n

I met David – wearing a Santa tie – while we were marooned at O’hare. This occurred when United Airlines’ ORD – MSN flight performance was modeled after a random number generator (2008-2009).<\/p>\n

Take your chances: canceled, on time or delayed. The odds grew against the paying traveler as day turned into evening.<\/p>\n

Thus we stood at the gate, not at all surprised that our last flight of the day to Madison was cancelled.<\/p>\n

We shared a rental car to Madison that evening, swapping family and business tales, including the recent big bank bailouts.<\/p>\n

Our paths occasionally crossed and included lunch or tea conversations.<\/p>\n

Life on earth is fleeting; our “time of grace”, for sure.<\/p>\n

PS. After enduring endless ORD – MSN flight misadventures, I phoned Air Wisconsin’s VP – Operations.<\/p>\n

I simply asked when they might stop with the random number generator? Laughing, he said that United determines where and when they fly. (Air Wisconsin continues to provide “regional jet” service to the large “mainline” airlines).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two recent obituaries. Darwin Ness We frequently worshipped with Darwin Saturday evenings. Observing his drive, devotion and faith was humbling, to say the least. David Villa I met David – wearing a Santa tie – while we were marooned at O’hare. This occurred when United Airlines’ ORD – MSN flight performance was modeled after a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/8721"}],"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=8721"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8727,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721\/revisions\/8727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}