{"id":425417,"date":"2021-07-12T11:26:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T05:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=425417"},"modified":"2021-07-12T11:26:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T05:56:43","slug":"covid-turbulence-grounds-dreams-of-aspiring-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-turbulence-grounds-dreams-of-aspiring-pilots\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid turbulence grounds dreams of aspiring pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aarif Iqbal, 28, spends his days teaching budding pilots the theory of aircraft navigation. At night, he works as a call-centre executive.<\/p>\n<p>Iqbal\u2019s sights, though, are set skywards. The Delhi resident completed his commercial pilot licence (CPL) two years ago, but was unable to find a job as a pilot due to the economic downturn in 2019, and the Covid-19 pandemic the next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aarif Iqbal, 28, spends his days teaching budding pilots the theory of aircraft navigation. At night, he works as a call-centre executive. Iqbal\u2019s sights, though, are set skywards. The Delhi resident completed his commercial pilot licence (CPL) two years ago, but was unable to find a job as a pilot due to the economic downturn in 2019, and the Covid-19 pandemic the next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}