{"id":36010,"date":"2017-04-10T07:43:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/man-who-skipped-airports-moving-walkway-immediately-realizes-what-an-arrogant-fool-hes-been"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:05:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:05:28","slug":"man-who-skipped-airports-moving-walkway-immediately-realizes-what-an-arrogant-fool-hes-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/man-who-skipped-airports-moving-walkway-immediately-realizes-what-an-arrogant-fool-hes-been","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Skipped Airport\u2019s Moving Walkway Immediately Realizes What An Arrogant Fool He\u2019s Been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/man-who-skipped-airports-moving-walkway-immediately-realizes-what-an-arrogant-fool-hes-been.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014The grave implications of his vanity dawning on him, local man Ed Paitz realized what an arrogant fool he\u2019s been after skipping the moving walkway at Los Angeles International Airport, sources said Thursday. \u201cMy god, what have I done?\u201d said a despairing Paitz, realizing that, alas, he must live with the sorrowful consequences of his own hubris and proceed down the carpeted corridor on his own two feet, watching in shame as other travelers with the humility to board the conveyor platform flowed past him with ease. \u201cMy pride\u2014my accursed pride\u2014has brought me to this! Like Icarus and Arachne before me, let my tale serve as a warning to all those who would surrender to the vile temptations of the ego.\u201d At press time, redemption lay at hand, as the moving walkway was ending with a small gap before the next one began.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/man-who-skipped-airports-moving-walkway-immediatel-55711?utm_content=Main&amp;utm_campaign=SF&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=SocialMarketing\">http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/man-who-skipped-airports-mov...lMarketing<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014The grave implications of his vanity dawning on him, local man Ed Paitz realized what an arrogant fool he\u2019s been after skipping the moving walkway at Los Angeles International Airport, sources said Thursday. \u201cMy god, what have I done?\u201d said a despairing Paitz, realizing that, alas, he must live with the sorrowful consequences of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36010"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58117,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36010\/revisions\/58117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}