{"id":113,"date":"2011-04-26T07:45:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T05:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2011-04-26T07:45:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T05:45:45","slug":"thoughts-on-flying-planes-and-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2011\/04\/thoughts-on-flying-planes-and-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on flying, planes and speed&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Definition of flying: Falling in style without hitting the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Definition of a good landing is when you can still walk away from the plane.<\/p>\n<p>Definition of an excellent landing is when you can re-use the plane again.<\/p>\n<p>And the definition of a superb landing is when you can re-use the plane for flying again.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not falling that kills you&#8230; it&#8217;s hitting the ground that does. Similarly, speed doesn&#8217;t kill, it&#8217;s the rapid deacceleration when you hit another object that does. Ask anyone who has experienced that (and still lives)<\/p>\n<p>Water is all soft and wet until you hit it at high speed.<\/p>\n<p>Why is it that whenever your parachute fails and there&#8217;s a heap of hay there&#8217;s always a fork in it!<\/p>\n<p>Nothing travels faster than light&#8230; with the possible exception of bad news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definition of flying: Falling in style without hitting the ground. Definition of a good landing is when you can still walk away from the plane. Definition of an excellent landing is when you can re-use the plane again. And the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2011\/04\/thoughts-on-flying-planes-and-speed\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}