{"id":753,"date":"2010-04-01T11:42:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T15:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/?p=753"},"modified":"2010-04-01T14:30:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T18:30:05","slug":"web-w-o-m-careful-what-you-wish-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/web-w-o-m-careful-what-you-wish-for\/","title":{"rendered":"web w.o.m. &#8211; careful what you wish for"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-754\" href=\"http:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=754\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-754\" title=\"delta customers at their favorite activity\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/deltaCounter-200x130.jpg?resize=200%2C130\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/deltaCounter.jpg?resize=200%2C130&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/deltaCounter.jpg?resize=150%2C97&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/deltaCounter.jpg?resize=400%2C260&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/deltaCounter.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>You! Customer! So What!<\/h4>\n<p>Will anyone, anywhere, ever say anything nice about Delta again? The answer is&#8230; no. Never. Just when I thought the <strong>statue of limitations on self-inflicted airline stupidity<\/strong> had run out after the <a href=\"http:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/?p=727\">Pringles\/Virgin Air episode<\/a>, Delta&#8217;s merger completion with Northwest last January actually signaled a fresh round of lowering the bar of customer expectations to depths previously unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting for Feministe, <strong>Jill Filipovic hit the mother lode<\/strong> of original travel horror story source material on her recent &#8220;trip&#8221; to Austin&#8217;s famously famous SXSW. <strong>Lucky for Delta, Jill&#8217;s a lawyer<\/strong> with a samurai writer&#8217;s instinct.<\/p>\n<p>So even though the year&#8217;s still young, here&#8217;s my nomination for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/9WXIYc\" target=\"_blank\">Best of Show &#8211; Travel Horror Stories (Domestic)<\/a><\/strong>. Turn off the phone, make yourself comfortable, and enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You! Customer! So What! Will anyone, anywhere, ever say anything nice about Delta again? The answer is&#8230; no. Never. Just when I thought the statue of limitations on self-inflicted airline stupidity had run out after the Pringles\/Virgin Air episode, Delta&#8217;s merger completion with Northwest last January actually signaled a fresh round of lowering the bar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[210,212,209,213,211],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-road","category-marketing-and-promotion","tag-airlines","tag-austin","tag-delta","tag-sxsw","tag-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfUeo-c9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}