{"id":41528,"date":"2014-01-31T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41528"},"modified":"2014-01-31T10:27:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T16:27:58","slug":"an-extra-in-the-security-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41528","title":{"rendered":"An Extra In The Security Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to commit to you this longish piece by Jason Harrington, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2014\/01\/tsa-screener-confession-102912_Page2.html#ixzz2rzdflrMA\">Dear America: I Saw You Naked<\/a>&#8220;, from Politico.\u00a0 It chronicles his time as a grad student marooned as a TSA screener at O&#8217;Hare.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you&#8217;re reading this blog, it&#8217;s likely as not you aren&#8217;t a huge TSA fan.\u00a0 And for all that, there are probably things in Harrington&#8217;s piece that&#8217;ll <em>still <\/em>get you mad.<\/p>\n<p>But I am linking to this because it&#8217;d seem Mr. Harrington and I must have met.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Because this person:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every now and then, a passenger would throw up two middle fingers during his or her scan, as though somehow aware of the transgressions going on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Every time I fly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to commit to you this longish piece by Jason Harrington, &#8220;Dear America: I Saw You Naked&#8220;, from Politico.\u00a0 It chronicles his time as a grad student marooned as a TSA screener at O&#8217;Hare.\u00a0 Of course, if you&#8217;re reading this blog, it&#8217;s likely as not you aren&#8217;t a huge TSA fan.\u00a0 And for all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unions","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41528","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=41528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41530,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41528\/revisions\/41530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}