{"id":1537,"date":"2012-05-18T00:27:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T00:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2012-05-20T19:20:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T19:20:49","slug":"qf651-15th-april-from-darwin-airport-to-cairns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/05\/qf651-15th-april-from-darwin-airport-to-cairns\/","title":{"rendered":"QF1871 5\/4\/2012 from Darwin Airport to Cairns, Terminal D Seat 2C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">At Darwin I met Lonnie<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">an angel in the airport<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A Jet Star lady told him<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">about me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and up he came<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Full of upbeat banter<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a kind of all year Santa<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A Boarding card<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But would not tell me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">his name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He took me to the pat down place<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Where I had to sign a form<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I told them not to squeeze my legs<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They were feverish and warm<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They agreed and they didn&#8217;t squeeze them<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and after that ordeal<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I sat and watched others entering<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">the &#8220;Twilight Zone&#8221; for real!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Then Lonnie came back for me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and saw me to the plane<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">an angel, a real angel<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">so caring once again<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Which made me truly realise<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That angels do exist<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They really truly are out there<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reading to assist<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The shuttle from the Hotel<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">alas though paid for came<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But I could not get up its steps<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and a taxi man by name<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Took me for 20 dollars<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The shuttle was no good<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It was frightfully inadequate<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Much worse than it really should<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So to meet up with Dear Lonnie<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and be helped so very much<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Brought faith back to me actually<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And just kept me in touch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are angels out there and Lonnie was one of them. I hope Quantas knows who he is and how calming and helpful he is <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/05\/qf651-15th-april-from-darwin-airport-to-cairns\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-and-the-epic-journeys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1674,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions\/1674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}