
{"id":163,"date":"2003-02-15T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opendna.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2003-02-15T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-15T15:00:00","slug":"the-first-terrorist-i-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/15\/the-first-terrorist-i-met\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Terrorist I Met"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another terrorist was caught at our port yesterday. He was a tall white<br \/>\nguy in an expensive suit looking very much unlike the Afghanistan-hardened<br \/>\nterrorists you see on FOX NEWS these days&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Because he was from the IRA. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>post script 02\/27\/2003:<\/i> The next day the Irishman in question was<br \/>\nbeing escorted to his plane, because we don&#8217;t generally admit terrorists<br \/>\nto the United States. The captain of the flight, who just happened to be<br \/>\naround, asked &#8220;what did this guy do?&#8221; To which one of the escorting<br \/>\nofficers, in a momentary lapse of discretion and intelligence, replied<br \/>\n&#8220;Oh, he&#8217;s a terrorist with the IRA.&#8221; The captain lit up like chinese<br \/>\nlantern and exclaimed &#8220;GET HIM OUTA HERE!&#8221; Subsequently the airline<br \/>\nrefused to accept the Irishman without an armed escort across the planet.<br \/>\nSo he sat in jail until the folks up top figured out what to do with him<br \/>\nand  who would pay. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>post script 02\/24\/2003:<\/i> Something not entirely dissimilar is the<br \/>\ntopic of <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thismodernworld.com\">Tom Tomorrow<\/a>&#8217;s &#8220;This<br \/>\nModern World&#8221; <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/comics\/tomo\/2003\/02\/24\/tomo\/index1.html\">this<br \/>\nweek<\/a>. [Salon Link: support of some sort required]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another terrorist was caught at our port yesterday. He was a tall white guy in an expensive suit looking very much unlike the Afghanistan-hardened terrorists you see on FOX NEWS these days&#8230; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Because he was from the IRA. &nbsp; post script 02\/27\/2003: The next day the Irishman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-line","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}