{"id":740,"date":"2012-02-13T18:37:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T16:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/?p=740"},"modified":"2012-02-13T18:37:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T16:37:23","slug":"fly-with-your-bass-the-us-aviation-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"Fly with your bass: the US aviation bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMusicians in the US have cause for celebration\u201d writes <a href=\"http:\/\/thestrad.com\/Article.asp?ArticleID=2132\">The Strad<\/a>. After Congress approved provisions for a uniform national policy on carrying instruments on planes, it&#8217;s easier to get onboard with your beloved instrument.\u00a0Up to now, each airline has been allowed to set their own musical instruments policy, and size limits for both carry-on and checked baggage have varied widely.\u00a0The bill sets standard weight and size requirements for checked instruments, and allows musicians to buy a seat for oversized instruments (like double basses) that are too fragile to be checked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thestrad.com\/Article.asp?ArticleID=2132\">http:\/\/thestrad.com\/Article.asp?ArticleID=2132<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMusicians in the US have cause for celebration\u201d writes The Strad. After Congress approved provisions for a uniform national policy on carrying instruments on planes, it&#8217;s easier to get onboard with your beloved instrument.\u00a0Up to now, each airline has been allowed to set their own musical instruments policy, and size limits for both carry-on and [&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\/740"}],"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=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}