{"id":382,"date":"2013-12-04T14:06:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T22:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2013-12-04T14:06:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T22:06:54","slug":"happy-holidays-and-congrats-to-two-new-ases-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/happy-holidays-and-congrats-to-two-new-ases-pilots\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Holidays, and congrats to two new ASES pilots!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_383\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Matt-H..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-383\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-383\" alt=\"Matt from Michigan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Matt-H.-168x300.jpg\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Matt-H.-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Matt-H.-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Matt-H..jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt from Michigan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hey, everybody!\u00c2\u00a0Happy Holidays!\u00c2\u00a0 We all enjoyed our US Thanksgiving recently, and then had a bunch of fun flying with a couple of cool guys: Brennin, and Matt.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 They both came to Seattle Seaplanes to earn their ASES ratings, and we all had a good time!\u00c2\u00a0Matt came to us from Michigan, where he gets to watch seaplanes take off and land on some of the small lakes near his house.\u00c2\u00a0 He was out here to visit family on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewis-mcchord.army.mil\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joint Base Lewis-McChord<\/a>, and decided it would be a great time to earn his float rating.\u00c2\u00a0 We sure had fun!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_384\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Brinnen-2013-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-384\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-384\" alt=\"My Navy pal Brinnen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Brinnen-2013-001-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Brinnen-2013-001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Brinnen-2013-001-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My pal Brennin<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brennin also has a military connection, except in his case, he&#8217;s actually flying <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/F\/A-18_Hornet\" target=\"_blank\">F18s!<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 A little different from our Cessna 172, but he assured me that it&#8217;s all just as fun (even if he&#8217;s going only 70 knots, instead of 300!)\u00c2\u00a0You can come fly with us too &#8211; whether you have a connection to the military or are a civilian (like me)\u00c2\u00a0 Flights, be they lessons or scenic flights or dinner flights, make great presents &#8212; and it&#8217;s that time of year!\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/contact.php\" target=\"_blank\"> Just contact us for details.<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Happy Holidays, everyone!\u00c2\u00a0 May your days be merry and bright.\u00c2\u00a0<em>Cheers,<\/em><em>&#8211;Toby James<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, everybody!\u00c2\u00a0Happy Holidays!\u00c2\u00a0 We all enjoyed our US Thanksgiving recently, and then had a bunch of fun flying with a couple of cool guys: Brennin, and Matt.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 They both came to Seattle Seaplanes to earn their ASES ratings, and we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/happy-holidays-and-congrats-to-two-new-ases-pilots\/\">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":[19,58,44],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flight-training","category-holidays","category-lake-union","category-toby","tag-doberman","tag-holidays","tag-seaplane-rating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","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=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}