{"id":195,"date":"2011-08-30T12:54:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T19:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2011-08-30T12:54:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T19:54:32","slug":"congrats-to-alex-and-jeff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/congrats-to-alex-and-jeff\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats to Alex and Jeff!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_196\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 156px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Alex-and-Toby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-196\" title=\"Alex and Toby\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Alex-and-Toby-181x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">My friend Alex, all smiles after his checkride!<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<dl id=\"attachment_197\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 234px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1801.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-197\" title=\"IMG_1801\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1801-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Jeff and I share a laugh on the dock!<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"mceTemp\">So, we had a couple of checkrides this week!\u00c2\u00a0 My friends Alex and Jeff recently became ASES-rated pilots, and I couldn&#8217;t be happier for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mceTemp\">\u00c2\u00a0Alex came to us from California, but he was born in Russia, so I learned some Russian from him.\u00c2\u00a0 I learned I am a <em>\u00d1\u0081\u00d0\u00be\u00d0\u00b1\u00d0\u00b0\u00d0\u00ba\u00d0\u00b0<\/em>, pronounced by English-speakers as\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;suh-BAH-kuh.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s &#8220;dog&#8221; in Russian \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p class=\"mceTemp\">\u00c2\u00a0Jeff is studying in the AMT program at South Seattle Community College, along with two of our stellar employees Jennie and Heather!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0He&#8217;s also a recent graduate of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocky.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rocky Mountain College <\/a>in Montana, with a degree in Aeronautical Science.\u00c2\u00a0 Wow!\u00c2\u00a0 He and his instructor, my friend Kit, had a lot of fun talking about Montana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mceTemp\">Hey &#8211; why don&#8217;t YOU come fly with us?\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d love to share some laughs with you, too!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mceTemp\"><em>Cheers,<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mceTemp\"><em>Toby James<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Alex, all smiles after his checkride! Jeff and I share a laugh on the dock! So, we had a couple of checkrides this week!\u00c2\u00a0 My friends Alex and Jeff recently became ASES-rated pilots, and I couldn&#8217;t be happier &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/congrats-to-alex-and-jeff\/\">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":[8,11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flight-training","category-lake-union","category-toby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","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=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}