{"id":13443,"date":"2010-11-24T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2010\/11\/24\/handling.html"},"modified":"2010-11-24T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T18:45:00","slug":"handling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2010\/11\/24\/handling\/","title":{"rendered":"Handling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Unintentionally funny bit from an article today. The article discusses the lack of delays today from passengers requesting a &ldquo;pat-down&rdquo; instead of going through backscatter machines. Then it switches topics to the more general issue of other kinds of airport delays today, and it notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Some travelers also faced technical glitches. Spirit Airlines was forced to handle its passengers manually at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after its computers experienced problems.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash;&ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/travel\/flights\/2010-11-24-thanksgiving-airport-travel_N.htm\">Fliers facing minimal airport delays, despite protest threats<\/a>,&rdquo; by Alan Levin, <cite>USA Today<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To which I thought: Isn't handling passengers manually what the TSA pat-down fuss is all about?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unintentionally funny bit from an article today. The article discusses the lack of delays today from passengers requesting a &ldquo;pat-down&rdquo; instead of going through backscatter machines. Then it switches topics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-puns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}