{"id":25754,"date":"2022-12-28T14:21:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T20:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=25754"},"modified":"2022-12-29T09:00:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T15:00:59","slug":"quaint-and-curious-volumes-of-forgotten-lore-6-in-a-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=25754","title":{"rendered":"Quaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore (#6 in a series)."},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a fun little quickie: a thoughtful Christmas present from FotB RoadRich.<\/p>\n

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The 1981 Braniff annual report.<\/p>\n

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The significance of this: the 1981 annual report came out in April of 1982. Braniff’s original airline operations ceased May 12, 1982.<\/p>\n

(“Two later airlines used the Braniff name: the Hyatt Hotels-backed Braniff, Inc. in 1983\u201389, and Braniff International Airlines, Inc. in 1991\u201392.<\/a>” Also: “…continues today as a retailer, hotelier, travel service and branding and licensing company, administering the former airline’s employee pass program and other airline administrative duties.<\/a>“)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a fun little quickie: a thoughtful Christmas present from FotB RoadRich. The 1981 Braniff annual report. The significance of this: the 1981 annual report came out in April of 1982. Braniff’s original airline operations ceased May 12, 1982. (“Two later airlines used the Braniff name: the Hyatt Hotels-backed Braniff, Inc. in 1983\u201389, and Braniff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-planes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25759,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25754\/revisions\/25759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}