{"id":261,"date":"2012-02-15T15:05:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T23:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2012-02-15T15:05:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T23:05:28","slug":"of-checkrides-and-valentines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/of-checkrides-and-valentines\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Checkrides and Valentines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a busy week it&#8217;s been!<\/p>\n<p>We started off the week with great news: my pal Erik passed his ASES add-on rating checkride! Erik is a flight instructor at a flight school on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harveyfield.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harvey Field <\/a>in Snohomish, Wa.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m really pleased he decided to come have the fun of the water, too.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 228px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/erik-and-toby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-262\" title=\"erik and toby\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/erik-and-toby-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/erik-and-toby-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/erik-and-toby.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Celebrating with my friend Erik<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>Then, Tuesday was Valentine&#8217;s Day, and we celebrated that, too. We treated our scenic flight guests to a pretty red rose and a photocard capturing the romance of the day. Here are a few of the happy couples:<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Feb-2012-008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-263\" title=\"Feb 2012 008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Feb-2012-008-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Feb-2012-0091.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-265\" title=\"Feb 2012 009\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Feb-2012-0091-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Valentine&#8217;s Day may be over for this year, but you can still surprise your sweetie, or anybody special, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/scenic.php\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle scenic flight<\/a>. Don&#8217;t you think that sounds like fun?!<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left;\">One last note: I was disappointed that the Doberman didn&#8217;t win the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westminsterkennelclub.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Westminster Kennel Club <\/a>&#8220;Best in Show&#8221; award, but at least she made it to the final seven.\u00c2\u00a0 She (the Doberman) sure was pretty!\u00c2\u00a0 Sigh&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Cheers,<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Toby James<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a busy week it&#8217;s been! We started off the week with great news: my pal Erik passed his ASES add-on rating checkride! Erik is a flight instructor at a flight school on Harvey Field in Snohomish, Wa.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m really &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/of-checkrides-and-valentines\/\">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":[8,10,11,3],"tags":[19,29,28,21,24,26],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flight-training","category-holidays","category-lake-union","category-toby","tag-doberman","tag-floatplanes","tag-lake-union-2","tag-seaplanes","tag-seattle","tag-valentines-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","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=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}