{"id":44,"date":"2006-06-25T20:17:18","date_gmt":"2006-06-25T19:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/wordpress\/?p=44"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:28:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:28:46","slug":"intermezzo-vienna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/25\/intermezzo-vienna\/","title":{"rendered":"Intermezzo: Vienna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Correct, I should be in Vienna. I am not. I am sitting at home torturing my computer. Why? I was not able to get on my flight. I got up at 5:30 AM, smashed and slowed I reached the airport Frankfurt at 7:00 AM. The ticket in my hand I approached the quick check-in machines not expecting any troubles. I inserted the first piece of paper of the three in the wallet. Amazingly enough, the machine told me boldly: \u00bbYou are not booked on this flight\u00ab. I took a closer look, it was the ticket from Vienna to Frankfurt. Okay, clear cut, I took the next piece of paper I had in my wallet. Again, the machine denied the booking. I had inserted the receipt. Slowly I got impatient, because I was running out of time. The moment, when I tried to realize my last option, the machines gave in, at least 5 of them. The system collapsed saying \u00bbst\u00f6rung\u00ab.<br \/> Now an airport employee came towards me. I felt already guilty, but pretended to be innocent and astonished. The guy explained to me in a very poor German &#8211; I had problems to understand him in my fairly retarded status &#8211; to refer to the counter. So I did. The lady solved my problem easily. \u00bbYour are not booked on this flight, your flight is on the 25th of July.\u00bb A \u00bbshit\u00ab slipped off my tongue.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I am here. A flight to Vienna and back would have cost me more than 1000,- \u20ac. Thus, I stayed home. I got my lesson. Don&#8217;t do to many things at a time.<\/p>\n<p>To testify that I was there:<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/biest-blog.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/airport_0188.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Airport_0188\" alt=\"Airport_0188\" src=\"http:\/\/biest-blog.typepad.com\/biest_blog\/images\/airport_0188.jpg\" width=\"390\" height=\"213\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correct, I should be in Vienna. I am not. I am sitting at home torturing my computer. Why? I was not able to get on my flight. I got up at 5:30 AM, smashed and slowed I reached the airport Frankfurt at 7:00 AM. The ticket in my hand I approached the quick check-in machines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2294],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4586,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/4586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}