{"id":183,"date":"2011-07-31T13:06:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T20:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2011-07-31T13:06:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T20:06:26","slug":"in-the-summertime-when-the-weather-is-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/in-the-summertime-when-the-weather-is-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;In the summertime, when the weather is fine&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Busy, busy, busy!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0That&#8217;s how it&#8217;s been for us here at Seattle Seaplanes!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left;\">We&#8217;ve had a couple of checkrides recently &#8211; two more ASES-rated pilots passed their checkrides. Our instructor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/instructors.php\">Richard <\/a>worked with two really nice guys, Dale and John, and both passed with &#8220;flying colors.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a picture of John, who&#8217;s a &#8220;flying Saluki&#8221; (he attends <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siuc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Illinois University<\/a>, that is)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_184\" style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/john-and-toby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-184\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-184\" title=\"John and Toby\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/john-and-toby-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/john-and-toby-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/john-and-toby-898x1024.jpg 898w, https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/john-and-toby.jpg 1398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My pal John, a proud holder of a new ASES rating<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(I&#8217;ll get a picture up here of Dale as soon as I can get it off of Richard&#8217;s camera!\u00c2\u00a0 Richard is a hard-working high school teacher, and he&#8217;s taking advantage of the summer break now for some well-deserved R&amp;R)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, although Seattle is having a somewhat cool summer, (especially compared to the rest of the country!) we&#8217;re having our share of nice, sunny days, too.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a picture, (courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons) of what the lake looks like on a busy day<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_185\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 310px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Busy-Lake-Union.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-185\" title=\"Busy Lake Union\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Busy-Lake-Union-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Busy-Lake-Union-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Busy-Lake-Union.jpg 626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">photo courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons &#8211; johnzebedee<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>We like it this way &#8211; we know you will, too.\u00c2\u00a0 Come see us!<\/p>\n<p><em>cheers,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Toby James<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Busy, busy, busy!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0That&#8217;s how it&#8217;s been for us here at Seattle Seaplanes! We&#8217;ve had a couple of checkrides recently &#8211; two more ASES-rated pilots passed their checkrides. Our instructor Richard worked with two really nice guys, Dale and John, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/in-the-summertime-when-the-weather-is-fine\/\">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-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","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=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}