{"id":1556,"date":"2009-02-06T13:18:36","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T20:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2009-02-06T13:59:55","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T20:59:55","slug":"bread-circuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=1556","title":{"rendered":"Bread & Circuses (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US Airways Flight 1549 crew on display at Superbowl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Is it just me, or does anyone else think this Hero Pilot<\/a> stuff is spinning out of control?\u00a0 I dunno, it hits me as wrong.\u00a0 Mawkish, lowest common denominator, on-display-for-your-beer-guzzling-delectation wrong.<\/p>\n

I’m surprised Sullenberger’s going along with all this.\u00a0 It’s like Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche: real pilots don’t strut around like peacocks when they do good . . . on the contrary, they say “I was just doing my job” and then run, not walk, from the media.\u00a0 Now I know he has said exactly those words . . . but he sure as hell isn’t trying very hard to avoid the media.\u00a0 Well, to be fair, US Airways is probably forcing him into it.<\/p>\n

Update (6 Feb 09):<\/em><\/span> Now I hear one of the network morning shows is going to devote an entire broadcast<\/a> to Hero Pilot (it’ll be up against a competitor network’s all-octuplet-mother-all-the-time broadcast).<\/p>\n

Look, fools . . . the man is competent, he did good, and he’s deserving of praise, but this is getting ridiculous.\u00a0 The higher the pedestal you put Hero Pilot on, the farther he (and we) will fall once we find out he’s only human.\u00a0 Stop this Oprahesque hype now.\u00a0 You wanna worship a hero?\u00a0 Try Mikhail Gorbachev.\u00a0 Or Ghandi.\u00a0 Or Helen Keller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it just me, or does anyone else think this Hero Pilot stuff is spinning out of control?\u00a0 I dunno, it hits me as wrong.\u00a0 Mawkish, lowest common denominator, on-display-for-your-beer-guzzling-delectation wrong. I’m surprised Sullenberger’s going along with all this.\u00a0 It’s like Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche: real pilots don’t strut around like peacocks when they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-events","category-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}