{"id":43,"date":"2008-09-14T15:01:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T05:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/?p=43"},"modified":"2008-09-14T15:01:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T05:01:58","slug":"never-too-big-for-his-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2008\/09\/never-too-big-for-his-boots\/","title":{"rendered":"Never too big for his boots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Bruce on stage during the last Iron Maiden tour\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/daedalist\/2253026535\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2176\/2253026535_8f9315126e_m.jpg\" alt=\"Bruce is The Trooper\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>Bruce Dickinson, the awesome lead singer of one of my favourite bands, just keeps getting better every time I read about him. He&#8217;s a fully certified Boeing 757 pilot (yes, he flies the plane when Iron Maiden tours), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2008\/09\/14\/2363998.htm\">didn&#8217;t turn down the distress<\/a> call to fly around the world and save the tourists stranded by the collapse of XL Leisure Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Dickinson, the awesome lead singer of one of my favourite bands, just keeps getting better every time I read about him. He&#8217;s a fully certified Boeing 757 pilot (yes, he flies the plane when Iron Maiden tours), and didn&#8217;t turn down the distress call to fly around the world and save the tourists stranded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11],"tags":[51,50,49],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p149Qe-H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}