{"id":39,"date":"2013-08-27T04:46:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T04:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/?p=39"},"modified":"2013-08-27T14:31:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T14:31:19","slug":"united-dc-6-the-adventure-of-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"United DC-6 &#8211; The Adventure of &#8220;Getting There&#8221;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/United_CA-610.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-41\" alt=\"United_CA-610\" src=\"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/United_CA-610-300x179.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/United_CA-610-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/United_CA-610.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Nowadays, whenever you board an aircraft as an &#8220;economy&#8221; passenger, usually the most prevalent thoughts on your mind are, &#8220;How long is this flight?&#8221; and &#8220;I wish I was there now!&#8221; \u00a0Perhaps as a business class traveller, and certainly as a first class traveller, these thoughts are not as prevalent. \u00a0But at the end of the day, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/United_CA-610_0001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-40\" alt=\"United_CA-610_0001\" src=\"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/United_CA-610_0001-300x179.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/United_CA-610_0001-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/United_CA-610_0001.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>modern day traveller mostly just wants to &#8220;get there&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;it was not always this way, was it? \u00a0As illustrated by this classic one cent (pre-1952) card from United Airlines, there used to be more of a romance about &#8220;getting there&#8221;. \u00a0I suppose you could say the same for many things today&#8230;we are always on the go, wanting to get to where we are headed, not really appreciating the journey. \u00a0And that&#8217;s why I love this card. \u00a0It&#8217;s not about the destination. \u00a0It&#8217;s all about the journey. \u00a0A beautiful silhouette of this DC-6 against the setting sun&#8230;a calm smooth journey through the painted sky&#8230;and only 9 1\/2 hours coast to coast! \u00a0A United marketing \u00a0masterpiece to be sure!<\/p>\n<p>Until next time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays, whenever you board an aircraft as an &#8220;economy&#8221; passenger, usually the most prevalent thoughts on your mind are, &#8220;How long is this flight?&#8221; and &#8220;I wish I was there now!&#8221; \u00a0Perhaps as a business class traveller, and certainly as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/?p=39\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,7],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-douglas","category-postcard","category-united-airlines","tag-dc-6"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}