{"id":19996,"date":"2016-08-24T16:54:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T15:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=19996"},"modified":"2016-08-24T16:54:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T15:54:44","slug":"another-statement-of-the-blindingly-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=19996","title":{"rendered":"Another Statement of the Blindingly Obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been in the news over the last year or so, but \u201cthe world\u2019s longest aircraft\u201d has been having test flights in the UK. It\u2019s basically a big balloon with propellers \u2013 not entirely unlike a Zeppelin.<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/312;background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"World's longest airship\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/airship_longest.jpg\" alt=\"World's longest airship\" width=\"524\" height=\"312\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, <a title=\"Airlander 10: Longest aircraft damaged during flight\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-37174417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on it\u2019s second test flight it crash-landed<\/a>. I love the euphemistic language they have used for that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The flight went really well and the only issue was when it landed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So that\u2019s all right, then.<\/p>\n<p>No one was hurt, which is why I\u2019m making a joke out of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been in the news over the last year or so, but \u201cthe world\u2019s longest aircraft\u201d has been having test flights in the UK. It\u2019s basically a big balloon with propellers \u2013 not entirely unlike a Zeppelin. Well, on it\u2019s second test flight it crash-landed. I love the euphemistic language they have used for that: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}