{"id":5538,"date":"2016-08-31T17:52:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T16:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=5538"},"modified":"2019-10-21T18:59:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T17:59:51","slug":"security-theatre-at-the-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=5538","title":{"rendered":"Bad scene at the museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be that you\u2019d go to the great British Museum and be greeted by lions. Now you\u2019re vetted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/jonathanjonesblog\/2015\/jul\/28\/aggressive-perverse-offensive-security-checks-at-london-museums-are-a-farce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">security theatre<\/a> ushers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/security1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5539\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/security1.jpg\" alt=\"security1\" width=\"700\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/security1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/security1-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/security2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5540\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/security2.jpg\" alt=\"security2\" width=\"700\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/security2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/security2-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be that you\u2019d go to the great British Museum and be greeted by lions. Now you\u2019re vetted by security theatre ushers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538"}],"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=5538"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9549,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions\/9549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}