{"id":596,"date":"2022-05-25T19:51:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T02:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=596"},"modified":"2022-05-25T20:07:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T03:07:31","slug":"reasons-to-travel-now-where-now-is-whatever-today-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2022\/05\/25\/reasons-to-travel-now-where-now-is-whatever-today-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons to travel now, where now is whatever today is"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over about the past 20 years, there have been many disruptions to travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In 2001, we had 9\/11.<\/li><li>In 2008-2010, we had Great Depression 2.0 and many airline pilots were furloughed or laid off their jobs.<\/li><li>In 2020, we had pandemic policies that shut down global travel and banned entry to numerous countries (except for the special people with multiple residencies or citizenship).<\/li><li>In 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a massive military war they called &#8220;a special military operation&#8221;. This war has killed tens of thousands, wounded tens of thousands, displaced millions and destroyed hundreds of billions of $s in infrastructure. 80% of the world&#8217;s sunflower oil originates from Russia and Ukraine and that is now cut off. A huge amount of the world&#8217;s exported wheat comes from Russia and Ukraine and that too is cut off.<\/li><li>In 2022, we have rampant inflation making everything cost more &#8211; as the value of our currencies plummet.<\/li><li>A shortage of airline pilots means airlines are unable to fly sufficient flights today &#8211; and would like to add 12,000 new pilots, this year, just in the U.S. This has disrupted airline travel.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>What does all this mean? It means never postpone anything for a future that may never come. Live life for today, not tomorrow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past 20 years have seen numerous disruptions to travel, perhaps more than we remember. The lesson learned is we should not postpone anything for a future that may never come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-background"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}