{"id":115,"date":"2006-12-30T11:20:05","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T11:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2006\/12\/montanas-not-nsw\/"},"modified":"2006-12-30T11:20:05","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T11:20:05","slug":"montanas-not-nsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2006\/12\/montanas-not-nsw\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana&#039;s Not NSW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#039;d imagine <a title=\"Techdirt: Flight Booking Typo Takes Tourist 8,000 Miles Off Course\" href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20061229\/115003.shtml\">this<\/a> is a fairly easy mistake to make, albeit one of those head-slapping &#034;oh my god&#034; fallacies that one would try pretty carefully to avoid if one knew there were more than one town named &#034;Sydney&#034; on this Earth.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Technology can certainly make planning air travel (slightly) easier, but not when you check your common sense and organic brain power at the gate. A twenty-one year old German tourist planned to take a trip to Sydney, Australia, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/WORLD\/europe\/12\/29\/germany.tourist.reut\/index.html\">wound up 8,077 miles off-course<\/a> &#8212; headed instead for the small oil town of Sydney, Montana, after mistyping his destination into a flight booking Web site. The man didn&#039;t notice anything was wrong until he was about to board a flight from Portland to chilly Montana, dressed in summer vacation clothes. Not only did the man trust the website a little too completely, his mother didn&#039;t notice the mistake because she trusted her son&#039;s techno savvy, saying he was &#034;usually good with computers.&#034; Good with computers perhaps &#8212; but apparently not so good at the simple task of actually reading his itinerary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#034;Oops&#034;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#039;d imagine this is a fairly easy mistake to make, albeit one of those head-slapping &#034;oh my god&#034; fallacies that one would try pretty carefully to avoid if one knew there were more than one town named &#034;Sydney&#034; on this Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[13,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}