{"id":581,"date":"2002-10-02T10:37:14","date_gmt":"2002-10-02T18:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=581"},"modified":"2016-10-31T13:24:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T21:24:33","slug":"pick-a-racket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":"pick a racket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heaven give me strength.  Airport screeners <a href=\"http:\/\/usatoday30.usatoday.com\/travel\/news\/2002\/2002-09-30-arrest.htm\">find sharp things<\/a> hidden in a young Bulgarian&#8217;s luggage &#8212; but that&#8217;s not all! <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Robert Johnson, a Transportation Security Administration spokesman .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. said the fact that the man&#8217;s one-way ticket was purchased over the Internet in August also raised suspicion. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> (Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachellucas.com\/archives\/000038.html\">Rachel Lucas<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>For at least a decade, paying cash at the counter has been a confession that you&#8217;re a drug smuggler, and any cash you happen to have on you is forfeit.  Now, if you buy your ticket on the Net a month in advance, you&#8217;re a terrorist.  Is that nice Mr Mineta in bed with the traditional travel agents, or what?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to visit Dad in a few weeks (for my birthday, which is also my stepbrother&#8217;s; he&#8217;ll be 21).  Dad bought the tickets, over a month in advance, on the Net &#8212; relieving my worry that the Keystone Kounterterrorists might hassle me for <i>nothing<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heaven give me strength. Airport screeners find sharp things hidden in a young Bulgarian&#8217;s luggage &#8212; but that&#8217;s not all! Robert Johnson, a Transportation Security Administration spokesman .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. said the fact that the man&#8217;s one-way ticket was purchased over the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=581\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3671,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/3671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}