{"id":3615,"date":"2025-11-23T21:58:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3615"},"modified":"2025-11-23T21:58:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:58:19","slug":"the-new-thanksgiving-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3615","title":{"rendered":"The New Thanksgiving Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5109.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5109-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3616\" style=\"width:464px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5109-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5109-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5109-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5109.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanksgiving Travel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You used to see the Bay; now on the way to SFO<br \/>a bevy of clashing billboards, all blood-bright graphics<br \/><br \/>and codes incomprehensible to the AI-dumb among us.<br \/>Dumb and dumber.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look at the airline staff: all yawns, blank, demoted\u00a0<br \/>to rote smiles as they correct operating intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Job description: To Oversee the Blundering<br \/>Machine.\u00a0\u00a0But as any parent knows, kids grow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>competent; they turn 30, don\u2019t need reminders<br \/>to pack and get going. The message is bright and bold:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>they are replacing us. But AI ain\u2019t flesh and blood,<br \/>the workers\u2019 smiles tell you that in one second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving Travel You used to see the Bay; now on the way to SFOa bevy of clashing billboards, all blood-bright graphics and codes incomprehensible to the AI-dumb among us.Dumb and dumber.\u00a0\u00a0 Look at the airline staff: all yawns, blank, demoted\u00a0to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3615\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1261,1686,1688,1539,1188,1689,786,15],"class_list":["post-3615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-bay-bridge","tag-family","tag-holidays","tag-job-loss","tag-thanksgiving","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-Wj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3617,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions\/3617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}