{"id":97167915,"date":"2010-03-12T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/canadians-postpone-flight-due-to-hockey-game\/"},"modified":"2010-03-12T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T09:42:00","slug":"canadians-postpone-flight-due-to-hockey-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/canadians-postpone-flight-due-to-hockey-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians Postpone Flight Due to Hockey Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<strong>Hockey is Canada&#39;s #1 sport<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOh Canada&#8230;they sure do love their hockey. How much you ask?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDuring the amazing Canada-USA gold medal final ice hockey match during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, passengers refused to board an Air Canada plane because the game had not ended yet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCalin Rovinescu, the chief executive of Air Canada stated, &quot;We incurred<br \/>\na flight delay for a reason Air Canada had not yet encountered in over<br \/>\n72 years of existence.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCanada&#39;s largest airline had to delay the flight until the hockey loving fanatics saw the outcome of the game which had Canada beat USA in overtime 3-2 in overtime. This was the first time that a host nation had won the gold in hockey in 30 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMakes you wonder what would have happened to that flight if Canada would have lost?&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE62904R20100310\" target=\"_blank\"> Reuters <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hockey is Canada&#39;s #1 sport &nbsp; &nbsp; Oh Canada&#8230;they sure do love their hockey. How much you ask? &nbsp; During the amazing Canada-USA gold medal final ice hockey match during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, passengers refused to board an Air Canada plane because the game had not ended yet. &nbsp; Calin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97167915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97167915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97167915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97167915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97167915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}