{"id":3017,"date":"2009-01-16T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/?p=3017"},"modified":"2009-01-16T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T22:02:00","slug":"the-emergency-landing-of-flight-1549-a-metaphor-for-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2009\/01\/16\/the-emergency-landing-of-flight-1549-a-metaphor-for-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"The Emergency Landing of Flight 1549 &#8211; A Metaphor for the United States?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/wabc\/story?section=news\/local&amp;id=6606410\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/1549abc.png?resize=500%2C275\" alt=\"Taken from ABC Local News Website\" width=\"500\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taken from ABC Local News Website<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I immediately thought last evening that the emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 is a metaphor for the United States and Obama is the pilot. Can he safely land with two engines out- our economy in shambles and our dubious reputation abroad? Well of course after doing a search for this metaphor, it has also come to the minds of many. Here are some bloglinks to these metaphors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordsmoker.com\/2009\/01\/15\/flight-1549-as-metaphor-for-the-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wordsmoker<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/menopausalstoners.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/flight-1549-provides-metaphor-for.html\" target=\"_blank\">Menopausal Stoners<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/raymond-leon-roker\/the-crash-of-flight-1549_b_158406.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I immediately thought last evening that the emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 is a metaphor for the United States and Obama is the pilot. Can he safely land with two engines out- our economy in shambles and our dubious reputation abroad? Well of course after doing a search for this metaphor, it has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[990],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-MF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}