{"id":15962,"date":"2014-07-11T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=15962"},"modified":"2014-07-11T00:24:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T23:24:00","slug":"pizza-pilot-perfect-gent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=15962","title":{"rendered":"Pizza Pilot Perfect Gent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the bad stuff going on in the world, <a title=\"US pilot buys pizza for grounded passengers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-28232814\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">little filler stories like this<\/a> warm the cockles of your heart!<\/p>\n<p>An internal flight from Washington to Denver was stuck in Wyoming due to a thunderstorm. So the pilot, Gerhard Bradner, ordered pizzas for all 160 passengers. 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