{"id":15806,"date":"2010-01-08T14:58:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T22:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=15806"},"modified":"2010-01-09T18:34:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T02:34:27","slug":"american-airline-security-checkers-seem-as-dumb-as-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=15806","title":{"rendered":"American Airline Security Checkers Seem As Dumb As Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always feel like I&#8217;m rubbing up against the bottom of America&#8217;s barrel when I go through security checks at an American airports. The people doing them appear bored and incompetent.<\/p>\n<p>They appear a lot dumber than any of their peers around the world. Those doing the checking in Europe and Australia appear a ton smarter.<\/p>\n<p>So why do we get the dregs in America? I don&#8217;t know. It appears that affirmative action plays an important role in hiring. I don&#8217;t see people being hired for their merit. They get hired for acting like sheep.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/rob_eshman\/article\/lax_tlv_20100105\/\">Rob Eshman writes in the Jewish Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>At Israel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always feel like I&#8217;m rubbing up against the bottom of America&#8217;s barrel when I go through security checks at an American airports. The people doing them appear bored and incompetent. They appear a lot dumber than any of their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=15806\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,171],"tags":[20924,20922,20921,20923,20920,20184],"class_list":["post-15806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-terror","tag-airline-security","tag-american-airline","tag-american-airports","tag-army-service","tag-dumb-as-rocks","tag-transportation-security-administration"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15817,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15806\/revisions\/15817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}