{"id":10848,"date":"2016-08-13T19:22:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=10848"},"modified":"2016-08-23T18:56:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T23:56:17","slug":"escalator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=10848","title":{"rendered":"Escalator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10850\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/img_20160813_130013.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10850\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/img_20160813_130013-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Escalator\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10850\" data-wp-pid=\"10850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/img_20160813_130013-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/img_20160813_130013-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/img_20160813_130013-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/img_20160813_130013-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/img_20160813_130013-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/img_20160813_130013.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Escalator<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a question. Should it only be an escalator when you ride it up from one level to a higher level? To escalate is to raise. So wWhen you go down, shouldn&#8217;t it be called a depressor or declinator or something? I have the same question about an elevator. Maybe that would be too complicated. I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Cathy and I were at Dulles airport today to pick up Dorothy. She was returning from Turkey, flying from Ankara to Washington via Munich, a much shorter itinerary than her original Ankara to Istanbul to Moscow to Washington set of flights. In fact, her entire trip from Ankara to Washington was shorter than her layover in Moscow was scheduled to be. I think we were all happy with the change. I suppose I could post a picture of her, back on American soil (or the tile floor of the airport, anyway) but I kind of like this picture of three escalators (two of which are descenders, actually), viewed from above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a question. Should it only be an escalator when you ride it up from one level to a higher level? To escalate is to raise. So wWhen you go down, shouldn&#8217;t it be called a depressor or declinator or something? I have the same question about an elevator. Maybe that would be too complicated. &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=10848\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10848"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10852,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848\/revisions\/10852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}