{"id":23287,"date":"2024-12-21T15:59:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T14:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23287"},"modified":"2024-12-21T15:59:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T14:59:12","slug":"i-refused-to-give-up-my-seat-on-the-plane-to-a-pregnant-woman-was-i-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23287","title":{"rendered":"I Refused To Give Up My Seat on the Plane to a Pregnant Woman. Was I Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent 5+ hour flight to visit family, I was asked by a pregnant passenger to give up my aisle seat near the bathroom. I empathized with her, but I also have medical issues that require quick restroom access, which is why I specifically booked and paid extra for that seat.<\/p>\n<p>Despite explaining this, the flight attendants offered no help, and there were no other aisle seats available. My family believed I should have given up my seat, but I couldn\u2019t help feeling it was unfair to expect me to sacrifice my needs. Was I wrong to stand my ground, or was I justified in keeping the seat I paid for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent 5+ hour flight to visit family, I was asked by a pregnant passenger to give up my aisle seat near the bathroom. I empathized with her, but I also have medical issues that require quick restroom access, which is why I specifically booked and paid extra for that seat. Despite explaining this, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23288,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23287\/revisions\/23288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}