{"id":74644,"date":"2020-09-04T14:34:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T18:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/?p=74644"},"modified":"2023-03-29T10:49:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T14:49:36","slug":"rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/09\/rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/editorial-graphic-en-1.jpg\" alt=\"Rejected\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><em>We\u2019re constantly looking around for interesting travel stories to fill the pages of the Agenda. Sometimes we hit. Sometimes we miss. And sometimes, we abandon the idea entirely. Why? It\u2019s hard to explain. Easier to show you.<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>Have you ever heard of a \u201cCode Grandma?\u201d We hadn\u2019t either \u2014 until recently, when we came across a shockingly exhaustive Wall Street Journal <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/disney-worlds-big-secret-its-a-favorite-spot-to-scatter-family-ashes-1540390229\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> that detailed just how much of a problem the scattering of ashes had become at Disney World. The term \u201cCode Grandma,\u201d however unfortunate, is the way one quoted Disney employee referred to the call for a high-powered vacuum cleaner to discretely remove remains from gardens and rides (the Haunted Mansion, somewhat ironically, serving as a favorite distribution ground).<\/p>\n<p>We thought we could spin off of that topic into our own exploration of the relationship between beloved vacation destinations and final resting places. It was already a risky play, and our research wasn\u2019t able to save the idea. Lead after lead turned into story after story of the TSA mishandling urns on the conveyer belt. That wasn\u2019t what we had in mind, and wasn\u2019t something we thought you\u2019d be longing to read. At least that\u2019s what we told ourselves at the time. Little by little we realized that hey, we&#8217;re humans, just like you. And if we thought an idea was interesting, you probably would too \u2014 or you&#8217;d at least want to know why we thought better of pursuing it. <\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20200905\/HauntedMansion.jpg\" alt=\"Haunted mansion\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Disneyland&#8217;s Haunted Mansion, reportedly the chosen resting place for more than its fair share of cremains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Most of our eccentric story ideas \u2014 the ones that sound so inspired in the pitch meetings \u2014 tend to go down in flames during the research process. For example, we were curious about the phrase Montezuma\u2019s Revenge. Offensive? Racist? Yes. The idea started out on a short leash, but among our writers, a hope took hold to find the origin of the phrase, to dive deep into the etymology, and to perhaps expose the suspect beginnings of other crass phrases we might take for granted. Unfortunately, this research stalled out upon the discovery of a host of other offensive phrases referring to the same digestive disorder, and little else. According to a difficult-to-verify <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phrases.org.uk\/meanings\/montezumas-revenge.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">account<\/a> from 1942, the trope of stomach problems associated with travel originated with British and American soldiers overseas, then learning to \u201cguard against \u2018Teheran tummy\u2019 and \u2018Delhi belly.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n<p>A pivot to write about the mystery of digestive issues in travel led to the somewhat dry conclusion of airplane-induced dehydration and sudden schedule changes that wreak havoc on the G.I. tract. We thought it was best to leave that for more scientifically minded publications.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20200905\/HoboSigns.jpg\" alt=\"Hobo Signs\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two pages from Leon Ray Livingston&#8217;s &#8220;<a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/iiif.lib.harvard.edu\/manifests\/view\/drs:43311395$14i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hobo Camp Fire Tales<\/a>.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20200905\/DickWhitman.jpg\" alt=\"Dick Whitman\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Don Draper witnesses the leaving of a mysterious chalk symbol by a wanderer in the <em>Mad Men<\/em> episode, &#8220;The Hobo Code.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In less bodily spheres of the travel experience, the <em>Mad Men<\/em> episode \u201cHobo Code\u201d inspired us, for a moment, to see what we could do with the topic ourselves. Though it\u2019s not the type tourism we typically espouse, the rail-hopping men of the late 19th and early 20th centuries represent another side of travel that is as bold and adventurous as any we usually cover. The idea of the \u201chobo code\u201d \u2014 pictographs drawn in public spaces to convey simple messages to fellow travelers \u2014 is fascinating on every level. The simple geometric symbols, which could mean anything from \u201clook out for hoodlums!\u201d to \u201csoliciting allowed on main street,\u201d were meant to make a traveler\u2019s life a little bit easier. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for our article, the experts <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-06-02\/anthropologist-susan-phillips-traces-the-hobo-graffiti-of-early-20th-century-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have some doubts<\/a> that such a system was really used much in practice. The pros focus instead on the more verifiable \u201chobo graffiti,\u201d an altogether less glamorous communication system that usually meant a written name, a date, and an arrow in the direction of the traveler\u2019s path. In any event, a cool bit of history. But after we\u2019d done our research, we decided we liked it better in Don Draper&#8217;s childhood. <\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20200905\/ParisBurning-1.jpg\" alt=\"Paris is Burning\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gert Fr\u00f6be plays General Dietrich von Choltitz (left) opposite Orson Welles&#8217; Raoul Nordling (right), a Swedish diplomat, in 1966&#8217;s <em>Is Paris Burning?<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another factual wrinkle caused us to pause on a celebration of one of our editor\u2019s favorite non-fiction books \u2014 <em>Is Paris Burning?<\/em> \u2014 later turned into a star-studded 1966 war epic written by Gore Vidal and Francis Ford Coppola and featuring Orson Welles and Kirk Douglas, among many others. That story is Paris, 1944, after the allies have pushed well into France and Hitler orders the Nazi general in charge of the city to turn Paris into \u201ca pile of rubble.\u201d According to a memoir by that general, Dietrich von Choltitz, his refusal of the order saved the city&#8217;s famous landmarks and preserved the Paris that stands today. His heroic version of events is echoed in the book, and later in the movie. A truly amazing story, and for us, a worthy way to highlight one of the world\u2019s most glorious destinations, especially after the 2019 fire at Notre-Dame. <\/p>\n<p>That is, until you read recent counterpoints from some historians, that, <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.fr\/20140825\/nazi-general-didnt-save-paris-expert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">when they put it bluntly<\/a>, say Choltitz\u2019s \u201cversion of events is pure fantasy from [a] self-aggrandizing former general\u201d \u2014 that he never had the firepower or control to raze the city in the first place. By the time Hitler gave the order, say these credible detractors, Paris was already well in the hands of the resistance. We weren&#8217;t sure who to believe, and decided against attempting to litigate the historical truth. In fact, the most lasting legacy of <em>Is Paris Burning?<\/em> might be how it inspired the title of the now-iconic 1990 drag-ball documentary <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.criterion.com\/films\/29647-paris-is-burning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Paris Is Burning<\/em><\/a>. That film we can recommend unequivocally.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20200905\/ParisBurning.jpg\" alt=\"Paris is Burning\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gert Fr\u00f6be plays General Dietrich von Choltitz (left) opposite Orson Welles as Raoul Nordling (right), a Swedish diplomat in 1966&#8217;s <em>Is Paris Burning?<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And finally, the last great, unwritten story of the year. The story of modern stowaways, for us inspired by a <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/culture-desk\/the-stowaway-craze\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Yorker article<\/a> on historical stowaways. Did you know that in the 1920s, in the roaring din of the Jazz Age, teenagers fueled a stowaway fad? They sought contraband adventures on the oceans, mailed themselves across the world, and altogether inspired each other by way of sensational newspaper reports in just the same way kids today might \u201clive-stream themselves atop the roofs of tall buildings.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>So what was the current state of the stowaway, we wondered? Alas, for every story or two about a child escaping a <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/04\/22\/travel\/successful-stowaways\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shopping trip<\/a> by sneaking his way onto a flight to Rome or an intrepid soul sailing the world undetected in the bowels of a cargo ship, there\u2019s a dozen heartbreakingly tragic ones about freezing to death in the wheel well of an airplane or living through hell on the law and humanity-deprived high seas. Compelling, no doubt, but not stories we felt equipped to tell. <\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/070619\/TwainBust.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Twain\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Twain in 1867, the year of his \u201cInnocents Abroad\u201d voyage, alongside a bust upon which the bronze Mark Twain Prize is based.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sometimes, though, when our research takes us in a different direction than we intended, we see it through and wind up with some of our most captivating content. It happens more than you think, like when last 4th of July we decided to celebrate Independence Day by celebrating one of America&#8217;s greatest travel writers \u2014 <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2019\/07\/citizen-twain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Twain<\/a>. Through our research, we learned that Twain&#8217;s views on race were too problematic to be shrugged off with &#8220;it was a different time then.&#8221; Instead of shutting down the story, we presented the full picture and pivoted to an honest conversation about satire, controversy, criticism and context. <\/p>\n<p>In the end, maybe we could have \u2014 or should have \u2014 forged ahead with a few of these story ideas. Who knows, maybe it would&#8217;ve led to some of our best work. Or maybe we just said all that really needs to be said (by us) on these topics. 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