{"id":526,"date":"2010-09-01T13:29:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T11:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doublebassguide.com\/?p=526"},"modified":"2010-09-01T13:29:50","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T11:29:50","slug":"flying-with-the-double-bass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"Flying with the double bass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Federation of Musicians is gathering signatures on a petition to urge Congress to adopt uniform rules for musicians to carry on or check their instruments aboard U.S. planes.<br \/>\nTo view the bill as currently written, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opencongress.org\/bill\/111-s1451\/text\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.opencongress.org\/bill\/111-s1451\/text<\/a>.<br \/>\nSection 713 \u201cTransporting Musical Instruments\u201d a.(3) provides for instruments too large to be carried into the cabin to be checked without additional charge (!), maximum combined linear measurements 150 inches, and maximum weight 165 pounds. You\u2019ll have to sign in and create an account in order to sign the petition.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">[via <a href=\"http:\/\/doublebassblog.org\/2010\/09\/sign-petition-to-allow-musical-instruments-on-airplanes-now.html\" target=\"_blank\">doublebassblog.org<\/a>,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/isbworldoffice.com\" target=\"_blank\">International Society of Bassists<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Federation of Musicians is gathering signatures on a petition to urge Congress to adopt uniform rules for musicians to carry on or check their instruments aboard U.S. planes. To view the bill as currently written, go to http:\/\/www.opencongress.org\/bill\/111-s1451\/text. Section 713 \u201cTransporting Musical Instruments\u201d a.(3) provides for instruments too large to be carried into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}