{"id":15780,"date":"2012-02-03T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T04:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=15780"},"modified":"2012-02-02T22:01:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T01:01:27","slug":"fighter-pilot-speak-shoe-clerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/03\/fighter-pilot-speak-shoe-clerk\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighter Pilot Speak: Shoe Clerk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many want to be fighter pilots.\u00a0 Those who can&#8217;t sometimes dress up like fighter pilots.\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/14\/everybody-wants-to-be-a-fighter-pilot-even-usher\/\">Usher, anyone<\/a>?)\u00a0 Those who can&#8217;t do that will still try to talk like fighter pilots, who sometimes seem to have a lingo all their own.\u00a0 The fighter pilot &#8220;language&#8221; is a tradition probably dating back to the Wright brothers, but it never gets old.\u00a0 For example:<\/p>\n<p>A <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/fighterpilotspeak.htm#shoeclerk\">shoe clerk<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>is a <!--more-->pejorative term sometimes used by pilots\u00a0to describe non-aviators.\u00a0 It is generally reserved for those who attempt to assert the importance of their non-flying expertise in order to assume an air of superiority over an Air Force aviator.<\/p>\n<p>See also <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/fighterpilotspeak.htm#Shoe_Flag\">shoe flag<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/fighterpilotspeak.htm\">Fighter Pilot Speak<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; or maybe read about <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/13\/you-can-talk-like-a-fighter-pilot-but-should-you\/\">why you <em>shouldn&#8217;t<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>This addition was suggested by a ChristianFighterPilot.com reader.\u00a0 If you have terms you think should be added, use the contact page (or comment below).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many want to be fighter pilots.\u00a0 Those who can&#8217;t sometimes dress up like fighter pilots.\u00a0 (Usher, anyone?)\u00a0 Those who can&#8217;t do that will still try to talk like fighter pilots, who sometimes seem to have a lingo all their own.\u00a0 The fighter pilot &#8220;language&#8221; is a tradition probably dating back to the Wright brothers, but it never gets old.\u00a0 For [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[5285,2818,2,609,2817,40],"class_list":["post-15780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-lingo","tag-military","tag-pilot-speak","tag-shoe-clerk","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}