{"id":29004,"date":"2012-07-17T06:31:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T11:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29004"},"modified":"2012-07-17T06:34:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T11:34:38","slug":"the-two-least-reassuring-things-ive-read-all-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29004","title":{"rendered":"The Two Least Reassuring Things I&#8217;ve Read All Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Needles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/07\/16\/travel\/delta-needles\/index.html\">found<\/a> in turkey sandwiches on Delta flights from Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>Not-very-reassuring thing #1:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;TSA continues to closely monitor the review of the incidents as well as the security protocols being conducted by the air carrier and the airport authority,&#8221; spokesman David Castelveter said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And not-so-reassuring thing #2:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Delta requires all its in-flight caterers to adhere to strict criteria in order to offer our customers the very best onboard meals,&#8221; Baur told CNN in a statement. &#8220;The safety and security of our passengers and crew is Delta&#8217;s number one priority.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So the bad news: \u00a0Delta and TSA are on the case. \u00a0And if cases can be solved by being late or groping peoples&#8217; nether regions, we&#8217;re gold.<\/p>\n<p>The good news? \u00a0To the best of my knowledge, Al Quaeda hasn&#8217;t figured out how to fit a bomb inside a needle yet.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll just shut up right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Needles found in turkey sandwiches on Delta flights from Amsterdam. Not-very-reassuring thing #1: &#8220;TSA continues to closely monitor the review of the incidents as well as the security protocols being conducted by the air carrier and the airport authority,&#8221; spokesman David Castelveter said. And not-so-reassuring thing #2: &#8220;Delta requires all its in-flight caterers to adhere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trains-and-automobiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29004"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29006,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29004\/revisions\/29006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}