{"id":494,"date":"2003-12-29T13:05:49","date_gmt":"2003-12-29T18:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/save-me-from-the-fish\/"},"modified":"2003-12-29T13:05:49","modified_gmt":"2003-12-29T18:05:49","slug":"save-me-from-the-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/save-me-from-the-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"save me from the fish!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/03362\/255283.stm\" class=\"broken_link\">The fish that threatened national security<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I was led back to the US Airways ticket counter,  stocking-footed and alone,  where the agents reasserted that they did not see a problem for me to have a fish on board,  properly packaged in plastic fish bag and secured with a rubber band as MJ was. But the TSA supervisor was called over, and he berated me profusely. He exclaimed that in no way, under no circumstances, was a small fish allowed to pass through security, regardless of what the ticket agents said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>i&#8217;m glad we have a whole new federal department taking care of these threats.  surely an investigation will reveal the lapse in security that allowed lara hayhurst to commit this vicious crime.<\/p>\n<p>fortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/US\/12\/29\/airline.security\/\">steps are already being taken<\/a> to ensure that in the future, both lara and her fish will be shot before the fish has a chance to grab the flight controls.<\/p>\n<p>we really have sunk this far.  i am embarrassed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>update<\/strong> (2003.12.30):  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/30452\">metafilter<\/a> has it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fish that threatened national security I was led back to the US Airways ticket counter, stocking-footed and alone, where the agents reasserted that they did not see a problem for me to have a fish on board, properly packaged in plastic fish bag and secured with a rubber band as MJ was. But the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}