{"id":26880,"date":"2009-07-30T19:21:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T19:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/07\/30\/overheard-at-airport\/"},"modified":"2009-07-30T19:21:39","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T19:21:39","slug":"overheard-at-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/30\/overheard-at-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Overheard at airport:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Here,&#8221; dad to girl, &#8220;Get your ID out and have it with your ticket.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Excuse me, sir,&#8221; said the TSA officer, pointing to the young female, &#8220;She does not need to have her ID out, she&#8217;s a minor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dad: &#8220;How do you know she&#8217;s a minor if you don&#8217;t look at her ID?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;. (silence as everyone waits for answer)&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Dad again: &#8220;Kind of a hole in the system, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>TSA Officer, voice lowered &#8230; &#8220;There are a LOT of holes in the system, sir.&#8221; &#8230; walks away.<\/p>\n<p>Young girl, &#8220;Good one, dad. Now tell her our name is LADEN and see what happens!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Here,&#8221; dad to girl, &#8220;Get your ID out and have it with your ticket.&#8221; &#8220;Excuse me, sir,&#8221; said the TSA officer, pointing to the young female, &#8220;She does not need to have her ID out, she&#8217;s a minor.&#8221; Dad: &#8220;How do you know she&#8217;s a minor if you don&#8217;t look at her ID?&#8221; &#8230;. (silence &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/30\/overheard-at-airport\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Overheard at airport:<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Zy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}