{"id":1840,"date":"2025-10-20T15:15:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2025-10-20T15:15:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:15:47","slug":"theres-always-a-first-time-for-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/2025\/10\/20\/theres-always-a-first-time-for-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s always a FIRST time for everything"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I\u2019ve been flying with BA for years, and recently managed to get myself up to the second highest tier in their executive club. Not that I ever saw much benefit apart from free lounge access, additional baggage and queue skips at check in. Anyway I was flying back from San Francisco recently and managed to get upgraded to first class for the first time. What an experience. The suite was so comfortable and the service off the charts. The only issue is once you\u2019ve tried silk you don\u2019t ever want to go back to cotton. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2815-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2815-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2815-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2815-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2815-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2815-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2815.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2819-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2819-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2819-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2819-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2819-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2819.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2829-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2829-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2829-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2829-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2829-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2829.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2833-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2833-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2833-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2833-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2833-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2833-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2833.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2838-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2838-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2838-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2838-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2838-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2838.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I even managed to spot Ireland out of one of my three windows \ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1840\" data-postid=\"1840\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1840 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I\u2019ve been flying with BA for years, and recently managed to get myself up to the second highest tier in their executive club. Not that I ever saw much benefit apart from free lounge access, additional baggage and queue skips at check in. Anyway I was flying back from San Francisco recently and managed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1841,"href":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions\/1841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}