{"id":2525,"date":"2012-01-23T19:10:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T19:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2016-12-30T09:32:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T14:32:25","slug":"a-famous-author-visits-and-a-possible-movie-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/fantasy-of-flight\/a-famous-author-visits-and-a-possible-movie-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"A Famous Author Visits . . . and a Possible Movie Opportunity!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Famous author, Richard Bach, came by for a visit and checked out our Travelair 4000. \u00a0Richard is most famous for his classic <em>Jonathan Livingston Seagull,<\/em> which is about a seagull that transcends the perceived limitations of his species while trying to get them to go beyond themselves. \u00a0He also wrote many other classic books revolved around aviation and is a legend in the aviation and writing community.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 598px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2533 size-full colorbox-2525\" title=\"Richard and Travelair\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Richard-and-Travelair.jpg\" width=\"598\" height=\"453\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard and my Travelair 4000<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I first met Richard about six years ago when he came to visit Fantasy of Flight during the Sun &#8216;n Fun Fly-In. \u00a0He has become a great friend, as we both enjoy aviation and using it to get people to look within themselves and self-discover the potential that lies within.<\/p>\n<p>Probably the other most famous book Richard wrote was <em>Illusions, the Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah. <\/em> It&#8217;s a great story about a barnstormer giving rides during a season in the mid-west\u00a0that happens to bump into another barnstormer and the adventures of self-discovery that follow. \u00a0Famous film director, Zack Snyder, has told Richard he intends to do a movie-version of the story as soon as he finishes filming Superman II for Warner Brothers.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what airplane the reluctant Messiah flew? . . . a Travelair 4000! \u00a0Richard has recommended the use the Fantasy of Flight Travelair for the film! \u00a0Now, how cool is that? I \u00a0sent a video clip of the Travelair flying to Richard and Zack so we&#8217;ll see how all this unfolds!<\/p>\n<p>Kermit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famous author, Richard Bach, came by for a visit and checked out our Travelair 4000. \u00a0Richard is most famous for his classic Jonathan Livingston Seagull, which is about a seagull that transcends the perceived limitations\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15,27,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy-of-flight","category-kermit-weeks","category-notable_friends_and_visitors","category-travelair-4000","a-famous-author-visits-and-a-possible-movie-opportunity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5966,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions\/5966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}