{"id":169,"date":"2011-06-13T11:27:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T18:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2011-06-13T11:27:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T18:27:28","slug":"dads-grad-and-seaplanes-and-congrats-kirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/dads-grad-and-seaplanes-and-congrats-kirk\/","title":{"rendered":"Dads, Grad, and Seaplanes &#8211; and congrats, Kirk!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_170\" style=\"width: 123px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Kirk-Toby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-170\" title=\"Kirk &amp; Toby\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Kirk-Toby-113x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My pal Kirk<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hey, everyone,<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sure been busy around here!\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;re really getting into the season now, what with the weather (finally!) getting summery, and people wrapping up another school year.\u00c2\u00a0 In the past week alone, we&#8217;re carried many proud graduates (and their even prouder moms and dads) on our Seattle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/scenic.php\" target=\"_blank\">scenic flights<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve also welcomed people from Germany, Austria, Mexico, California&#8230; and from right here in Seattle, too!<\/p>\n<p>My friend Kirk came up from Colorado to take his ASES (airplane single-engine sea) checkride.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course he passed :-)\u00c2\u00a0 Kirk has an interesting flying career: he flew helicopters in the military, and now flies a corporate jet.\u00c2\u00a0 He came to us with an AMES (airplane multi-engine seaplane) rating, and he has several hundred hours in a <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grumman_HU-16_Albatross\">Grumman Albatross<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s cool!<\/p>\n<p>Hey &#8211; if you&#8217;re stumped for ideas for Father&#8217;s Day, or for that special graduate in your life, how about a seaplane ride?\u00c2\u00a0 A scenic flight, perhaps, or an introductory flight lesson? It&#8217;s a unique gift they&#8217;ll always remember!<\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you around the Lake!<\/p>\n<p><em>cheers,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Toby James<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, everyone, It&#8217;s sure been busy around here!\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;re really getting into the season now, what with the weather (finally!) getting summery, and people wrapping up another school year.\u00c2\u00a0 In the past week alone, we&#8217;re carried many proud graduates (and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/dads-grad-and-seaplanes-and-congrats-kirk\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}