{"id":8552,"date":"2006-09-18T13:48:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8552"},"modified":"2006-09-18T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"virgin-bans-exploding-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8552","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Bans &#8220;Exploding&#8221; Laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ENN is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electricnews.net\/news.html?code=9807135\">reporting<\/a> that\u00a0 Virgin Airlines is taking steps to ban the inflight use of most Dell and Apple laptops after the recent spate of exploding batteries that was followed by a recall.\u00a0 Quantas and Korean Air have already done this.\u00a0 Virgin is allowing up to 2 individually wrapped batteries to be carried but they cannot be put to use.<\/p>\n<p>Given how rare these &quot;explosions&quot; have been, this seems like overkill.\u00a0 Next they&#8217;ll be banning water on flights &#8230; oh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENN is reporting that\u00a0 Virgin Airlines is taking steps to ban the inflight use of most Dell and Apple laptops after the recent spate of exploding batteries that was followed by a recall.\u00a0 Quantas and Korean Air have already done this.\u00a0 Virgin is allowing up to 2 individually wrapped batteries to be carried but they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8552\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Virgin Bans &#8220;Exploding&#8221; Laptops&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}