{"id":2766,"date":"2003-01-06T13:13:43","date_gmt":"2003-01-06T13:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=524"},"modified":"2003-01-06T13:13:43","modified_gmt":"2003-01-06T13:13:43","slug":"every-one-a-vip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2766","title":{"rendered":"EVERY ONE A VIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go check out Penn Jillette\u0092s <a href=http:\/\/pennandteller.com\/sincity\/penniphile\/federalvip.html target=\u0094browser\u0094> account<\/a> of dealing with airport security.<br \/>\nIt\u0092d be funny if it wasn\u0092t for the fact that his celebrity status is what finally pulled the bureaucracy into check.<br \/>\nSomehow, I don\u0092t think I\u0092d be treated quite so well.<br \/>\nAnd aside from the overall question of whether x-raying my Bass Weejuns makes the flight any safer (it appears that in spite of the fact that Richard Ried was wearing Semtex hightops, people with sneakers are exempt from the shoe x-ray, but people with loafers aren\u0092t), and of the overall rationality of the way we&#8217;re trying to do security&#8230;<br \/>\n\u0085the bigger problem with this is the fact that for the average person, hiring a private jet in case they miss their flight, or taking two days out of their busy schedule to go to a court hearing that will probably end inconclusively isn\u0092t an option. So you swallow your annoyance and just file on board.<br \/>\nPenn\u0092s trying to figure out what to do. Go tell him\u0085<br \/>\n<b>[Update:<\/b> <i>DOOOH&#8230;<\/i> a friend sent this over and I engaged in premature bloggage; didn&#8217;t check the date and see if there were followups, and haven&#8217;t been out on the blogs so didn&#8217;t realize the whole freakin&#8217; world had dealt with this. The point is useful, but I still wasted bandwith and your time&#8230;sorry&#8230;<b>]<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go check out Penn Jillette\u0092s account of dealing with airport security. It\u0092d be funny if it wasn\u0092t for the fact that his celebrity status is what finally pulled the bureaucracy into check. Somehow, I don\u0092t think I\u0092d be treated quite so well. And aside from the overall question of whether x-raying my Bass Weejuns makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}