{"id":325833,"date":"2010-02-15T12:55:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T17:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22235"},"modified":"2010-02-15T12:55:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T17:55:07","slug":"director-kevin-smith-thrown-off-oakland-flight-over-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/325833","title":{"rendered":"Director Kevin Smith Thrown Off Oakland Flight Over Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/KevinSmith.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Smith\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22236\" height=\"240\" width=\"265\" \/>Reports <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs13.com\/local\/kevin.smith.southwest.2.1493836.html\">CBS13<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>OAKLAND, Calif.  \u2015<\/strong> A cult-favorite movie director has claimed that he was thrown off a Southwest Airlines flight out of Oakland due to a dispute over his weight.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Smith, the creator of movies like <em>Clerks<\/em>, <em>Dogma<\/em>, and the upcoming <em>Cop Out<\/em>, posted a series of angry, sarcastic messages on his Twitter feed (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ThatKevinSmith\">@ThatKevinSmith<\/a>) blasting Southwest Airlines for allegedly throwing him off a flight at Oakland International Airport after he had already been seated and buckled in.<\/p>\n<p>According to Smith, a flight attendant told him the flight captain had deemed him a safety risk and requested that he leave the flight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I broke no regulation, offered no &#8217;safety risk,&#8217; (what, was I gonna roll on a fellow passenger?),&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;I&#8217;m way fat &#8230; But I&#8217;m not THERE just yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Smith&#8217;s followers (numbering more&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports CBS13: OAKLAND, Calif. \u2015 A cult-favorite movie director has claimed that he was thrown off a Southwest Airlines flight out of Oakland due to a dispute over his weight. Kevin Smith, the creator of movies like Clerks, Dogma, and the upcoming Cop Out, posted a series of angry, sarcastic messages on his Twitter feed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}