{"id":25182,"date":"2019-10-16T07:35:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T12:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25182"},"modified":"2019-10-16T07:35:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T12:35:05","slug":"overseen-on-the-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/16\/overseen-on-the-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Overseen on the Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, or more to the point, this Sunday and Monday, I traveled to a work retreat in the Washington, D.C., area.  When I travel, I like to pack my personal item with magazines that I can read and discard on the way, which means my bag gets lighter as I go.<\/p>\n<p>As I might have <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/04\/the-great-magazine-purge-of-2012\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mentioned<\/a>, my magazine subscriptions wax and wane over the years, and I have accumulated a bunch of old magazines in a drawer in the parlor that I&#8217;ve been meaning to read (including a number that came out of the trunk 17 years ago).<\/p>\n<p>I have to consider what to pack carefully.  My beautiful wife wants to browse some of them after I am finished, so I cannot discard <em>Forbes<\/em> or <em>417<\/em> on the road, so I might as well not pack them.  I don&#8217;t want to pack magazines with guns on them as I don&#8217;t want to have the TSA give me the side eye or give some fellow plane traveler the vapors, so <em>Garden and Gun<\/em>, <em>Ducks Unlimited<\/em>, <em>America&#8217;s First Freedom<\/em>, and various other items are right out.<\/p>\n<p>Which leads me to an eclectic collection in my bag, to be sure.<\/p>\n<p>So in rapid succession, someone sitting on a plane next to me is likely to see me go through years-old issues of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Chronicles<\/em>, kind of like a Midwestern <em>National Review<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li><em>St. Louis<\/em>, the slick from St. Louis, natch;<\/li>\n<li><em>National Review<\/em>, kind of like a hipster coastal elite <em>Chronicles<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li><em>First Things<\/em>, a magazine of Catholic theology;<\/\/li>\n<li><em>Birds and Blooms<\/em>, a lightweight photography magazine about flowers and birds;<\/li>\n<li><em>Metal Hammer<\/em>, a British magazine about heavy metal music focused on European bands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you know, gentle reader, I am a man of eclectic and diverse interests.<\/p>\n<p><em>But, Brian J., won&#8217;t your beautiful wife want to read <\/em>Metal Hammer<em>?<\/em>  Well, yes, which is why I have brought it home.<\/p>\n<p>And why I have looked up Follow the Cipher on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r-3nE5L8vag\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Watch for that album on a future Musical Balance post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, or more to the point, this Sunday and Monday, I traveled to a work retreat in the Washington, D.C., area. When I travel, I like to pack my personal item with magazines that I can read and discard on the way, which means my bag gets lighter as I go. As I might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25184,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25182\/revisions\/25184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}