{"id":23919,"date":"2017-02-10T14:21:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T22:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23919"},"modified":"2017-02-10T14:21:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T22:21:57","slug":"airliner-camper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/airliner-camper\/","title":{"rendered":"Hijacked Airliner Becomes Awesome California Camper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/flgcirc.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>I uncovered some really strange stories in my five years as a nationally-syndicated columnist, searching for the odd and unknown. One of the most\u00a0unusual California people I interviewed was\u00a0a Santa Claus-looking character from Cardiff named Smokey Rolland. He traded an old school bus for an Argonaut Airline DC-3, which flew out of Miami. Rolland said it had been hijacked twice to Cuba in the 1960s. In 1977,\u00a0the plane &#8220;landed&#8221; in a Tucson, Arizona scrapyard. He placed it on a truck frame and hauled the metal craft to his front yard in Cardiff. In seven months, he turned it into an operable camper.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not the end of this story! A couple purchased the camper and\u00a0 renovated it into a Space Shuttle look-alike. It was\u00a0taken\u00a0overseas&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/attractions\/hijacked-airliner.html\">read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald I uncovered some really strange stories in my five years as a nationally-syndicated columnist, searching for the odd and unknown. One of the most\u00a0unusual California people I interviewed was\u00a0a Santa Claus-looking character from Cardiff named Smokey Rolland. He traded an old school bus for an Argonaut Airline DC-3, which flew out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23919"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}