{"id":2302,"date":"2012-12-19T14:42:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T14:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2012-12-19T14:45:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T14:45:50","slug":"love-american-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=2302","title":{"rendered":"Love, American Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/takingsenseaway.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/12\/confession-x-the-things-they-ran-through-the-xray\/\" target=\"_blank\">Taking Sense Away, Confessions of a former TSA screener:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>I recall one time I did a bag check on a man from Detroit, once the auto-making capital of the world. Having been informed by the x-ray operator that there was a bottle of water in the bag, I pulled it out and quickly sensed that something was slightly off. Then, I realized what it was: there was an enormous dildo rubber-banded to it. I then had an epiphany, spreading over me like a sunrise, beautiful and exhilarating:<\/em> he wanted me to have to deal with the dildo. <em>He did it on purpose. In rubber-banding that dildo to the water bottle he knew we would target, he seemed to say:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYes, I have a dildo, federal officer. Even after the horrors of 9\/11, I am still alive; full of vitality, love, sex and, later tonight, that large dildo rubber-banded to the water you are about to confiscate from me. That bottle of water, bought with hard-earned American dollars to replenish my bodily fluids, so as to make me strong and keep the wheels of commerce of this great nation turning. In taking my water, I want you, federal officer, to know that the terrorists have won, and that you are complicit. I want you to see my dildo. To hold it in your hand; to know that I, as well as my fellow passengers and countrymen, are strong and resilient.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That we, the people of this great nation, can, and will, snap back, like that rubber band.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the blog Taking Sense Away, Confessions of a former TSA screener: I recall one time I did a bag check on a man from Detroit, once the auto-making capital of the world. Having been informed by the x-ray operator &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=2302\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2332,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions\/2332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}