{"id":465,"date":"2007-10-10T17:51:36","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T00:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=465"},"modified":"2007-10-10T17:52:34","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T00:52:34","slug":"who-needs-aircraft-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2007\/who-needs-aircraft-mechanics\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Needs Aircraft Mechanics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/oddlyEnoughNews\/idUSEIC47086020070905\">Airline sacrifices goats to appease sky god<\/a><\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>Officials at Nepal&#8217;s state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal Airlines, which has two Boeing aircraft, has had to suspend some services in recent weeks due the problem.<\/p>\n<p>The goats were sacrificed in front of the troublesome aircraft Sunday at Nepal&#8217;s only international airport in Kathmandu in accordance with Hindu traditions, an official said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The snag in the plane has now been fixed and the aircraft has resumed its flights,&#8221; said Raju K.C., a senior airline official, without explaining what the problem had been.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Was the &#8220;snag&#8221; fixed by Akash Bhairab?<\/p>\n<p>Do you know anyone who has ridden on a Nepal Airlines plane?<\/p>\n<p><i>Clarifier: I am not making fun of the folks at Nepal Airlines. Too bad they don&#8217;t know Jesus. That&#8217;s more my attitude.<\/i><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airline sacrifices goats to appease sky god Officials at Nepal&#8217;s state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said Tuesday. Nepal Airlines, which has two Boeing aircraft, has had to suspend some services in recent weeks due &#8230; <a title=\"Who Needs Aircraft Mechanics?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2007\/who-needs-aircraft-mechanics\/\" aria-label=\"More on Who Needs Aircraft Mechanics?\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-7v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}