{"id":1966,"date":"2007-01-12T11:40:34","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T16:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2007-01-12T11:40:34","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T16:40:34","slug":"okay-mr-preside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2007\/01\/okay-mr-preside\/","title":{"rendered":"okay, Mr President, let me get this straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My husband is flying out of town this afternoon to attend a funeral.  I&#8217;m packing his suitcase, and, since it&#8217;s the first time either of us has flown since 2004, I&#8217;m checking out the carry-on baggage rules at the airline and the TSA website.<br \/>\nSo let me make sure I&#8217;m understanding this correctly:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsa.gov\/travelers\/airtravel\/prohibited\/permitted-prohibited-items.shtm\">If my husband wants to carry a tube of toothpaste in his carry-on luggage, it has to be a mini-tube<\/a>.  Can&#8217;t be a regular tube that&#8217;s half full; has to be a mini-tube .  And the shampoo has to be a minibar size as well.  (Good thing I&#8217;m sending the electric razor so I don&#8217;t have to figure out how to pack the can of shaving cream.)<br \/>\nAnd this micro-toiletries have to be packed in a quart-size ziplock bag.  Not gallon.  Not pint.  Quart.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsa.gov\/311\/index.shtm\">And he will have to remove the quart-size bag, and place it in the tray with his shoes and keys.<\/a><br \/>\nAnd if he does not follow these instructions, he might be exhibiting suspicious behavior.<br \/>\nBut <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/editorial\/feature.html?id=110009348\">if he refuses to take his assigned seat, and instead demands that he and his friends be given seats that aren&#8217;t all together but just happen to be in strategic positions throughout the cabin,<\/a> and requests safety equipment that he doesn&#8217;t need but that could potentially be used as a weapon, then he is a victim, and those thuggish, bigoted pilots and airline crew <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=NjUwNzEwNmE1ZTI5YjQ5YjIxMzE3MzU3Y2RhODdlODQ=\">need to get over their lyin&#8217; bigoted eyes and go to sensitivity school<\/a>.<br \/>\nYeah, I <em>so <\/em>believe the government takes my safety seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband is flying out of town this afternoon to attend a funeral. I&#8217;m packing his suitcase, and, since it&#8217;s the first time either of us has flown since 2004, I&#8217;m checking out the carry-on baggage rules at the airline and the TSA website. So let me make sure I&#8217;m understanding this correctly: If my&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2007\/01\/okay-mr-preside\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">okay, Mr President, let me get this straight<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-fruitless-complaining","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}