{"id":4833,"date":"2005-11-02T07:21:36","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T07:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4833"},"modified":"2005-11-02T07:21:36","modified_gmt":"2005-11-02T07:21:36","slug":"the-haves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4833","title":{"rendered":"the &#8220;haves&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Kennedy Airport, Tuesday evening) I&#8217;m flying business class for the first time in my life, thanks to the good people in Spain. The Business Lounge in Terminal 7 is quite a scene. There&#8217;s a bar, a marble fountain, a spa, a bank of free computers, a counter with free snacks, a conference room, and on the walls, the &#8220;British Airways Collection&#8221; of original drawings by the likes of Sol Lewitt and Christo. I guess if you&#8217;re rich, you don&#8217;t have to pay for things like food and Internet access. Also, we are invited to leave our bags unattended in a side room. I guess rich people don&#8217;t steal stuff. I got in here through a separate security checkpoint where the line was short and&#8211;maybe it was my imagination, but the Transportation Security Agency people sure seemed deferential. I guess if you&#8217;re rich, even the government offers you efficient and friendly service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Kennedy Airport, Tuesday evening) I&#8217;m flying business class for the first time in my life, thanks to the good people in Spain. The Business Lounge in Terminal 7 is quite a scene. There&#8217;s a bar, a marble fountain, a spa, a bank of free computers, a counter with free snacks, a conference room, and on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}