{"id":281,"date":"2008-09-18T09:25:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T13:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greatsouthernbrainfart.wordpress.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2011-04-17T19:00:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T23:00:43","slug":"iron-maidens-gonna-get-ya-no-matter-how-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Iron Maiden&#8217;s Gonna Get Ya, No Matter How Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greatsouthernbrainfart.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/pm_ironmaiden_wideweb__470x3000.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282\" title=\"pm_ironmaiden_wideweb__470x3000\" src=\"http:\/\/greatsouthernbrainfart.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/pm_ironmaiden_wideweb__470x3000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LONDON (AFP) \u2014 Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson flew to the rescue of holidaymakers left stranded abroad after Britain&#8217;s third largest tour operator collapsed, newspapers reported Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The heavy metal hero is also a Boeing 757 pilot and flew a specially-chartered Monarch Airlines flight from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt to London Gatwick Airport.<\/p>\n<p>XL Leisure Group went into administration Friday, leaving some 85,000 British holidaymakers stranded abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Since then almost 12,000 people have been brought back as part of an airlift mission conducted by the aviation regulator.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was just doing my job. I was called out like a lot of other pilots to help and I was obviously happy to do that,&#8221; The Mail on Sunday newspaper quoted rocker Dickinson as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of the people on the flight were obviously frustrated by the situation they had found themselves in but everyone was pretty good-natured about it all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dickinson, 50, said he was off to the Greek island of Kos next to rescue some more stranded holidaymakers.<\/p>\n<p>The Iron Maiden frontman has been a captain with Astraeus, having worked for the British charter airline for nine years.<\/p>\n<p>Dickinson has also competed in fencing at international level.<\/p>\n<p>XL sponsored English Premier League football club West Ham&#8217;s shirts and the east London side played with patches covering the firm&#8217;s logo in their 3-2 defeat at West Bromwich on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><em>original story at http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5g_rrr_4qIV0sXMD0xDWpUGZffImA<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AFP) \u2014 Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson flew to the rescue of holidaymakers left stranded abroad after Britain&#8217;s third largest tour operator collapsed, newspapers reported Sunday. The heavy metal hero is also a Boeing 757 pilot and flew a specially-chartered Monarch Airlines flight from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt to London Gatwick Airport. XL Leisure Group went into administration Friday, leaving some 85,000 British holidaymakers stranded abroad. Since then almost 12,000 people have been brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[75,195],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news","tag-bruce-dickinson","tag-iron-maiden"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}