{"id":787,"date":"2005-04-17T14:40:30","date_gmt":"2005-04-17T19:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=787"},"modified":"2005-04-17T14:40:30","modified_gmt":"2005-04-17T19:40:30","slug":"us-govt-bans-reading-on-airplanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"US Gov&#8217;t bans reading on airplanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An airport security guard doing the pull-aside on Socialtext CEO Ross Mayfield<\/a> says that we&#8217;re now <a href=\"http:\/\/ross.typepad.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/random_rants.html\">restricted to two books<\/a> to carry on airplanes.<br \/>\nSo now you can tell terrorists because they&#8217;re reading too many books? Or the government thinks that people who don&#8217;t read will be more susceptible to idiotic pseudo-security.<br \/>\nThis needs a little bit of investigation and if true, a lot of mockery.<br \/>\nUPDATE:  Apparently, a poorly trained security guard was <a href=\"http:\/\/ross.typepad.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/books_banned_on.html\">confused<\/a> between <i>books of matches<\/i> and <i>books for reading<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An airport security guard doing the pull-aside on Socialtext CEO Ross Mayfield says that we&#8217;re now restricted to two books to carry on airplanes. So now you can tell terrorists because they&#8217;re reading too many books? Or the government thinks that people who don&#8217;t read will be more susceptible to idiotic pseudo-security. This needs a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=787\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US Gov&#8217;t bans reading on airplanes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-cH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}