{"id":64,"date":"2010-02-14T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2010-02-14T18:04:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T23:04:04","slug":"kevin-smith-too-fat-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/2010\/kevin-smith-too-fat-to-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Smith: Too Fat to Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Clerks&#8217; director <strong>Kevin Smith<\/strong> was kicked-off a <strong>Southwest Airlines<\/strong> flight today. The airline pulled their &#8220;Customer of Size Policy&#8221; card and expelled the <strong>American film<\/strong> icon from the plane. The humiliating experience is currently being relived minute-by-minute on <a title=\"Kevin Smith's Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ThatKevinSmith\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin&#8217;s Twitter page<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Kevin-Smith.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[64]\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65\" title=\"Kevin Smith\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Kevin-Smith-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Kevin-Smith-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Kevin-Smith.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think he is husky at best &#8211; but <em>too fat to fly?<\/em> C&#8217;mon! Judging by the loyalty of his fans alone, I&#8217;m certain Southwest Airlines is looking at a massive boycott and a heavily bruised public image among filmmakers and film fans world-wide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Clerks&#8217; director Kevin Smith was kicked-off a Southwest Airlines flight today. The airline pulled their &#8220;Customer of Size Policy&#8221; card and expelled the American film icon from the plane. The humiliating experience is currently being relived minute-by-minute on Kevin&#8217;s Twitter page. (more&hellip;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[71,72,73,70,23],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-airline","tag-airplane","tag-fat","tag-kevin-smith","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}