{"id":50,"date":"2005-04-24T11:25:49","date_gmt":"2005-04-24T11:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opendna.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2005-04-24T11:25:49","modified_gmt":"2005-04-24T11:25:49","slug":"flightless-birds-a-threat-to-aviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/24\/flightless-birds-a-threat-to-aviation\/","title":{"rendered":"Flightless Birds a Threat to Aviation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a perfectly good reason why TSA screeners in Denver decided to make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedenverchannel.com\/slideshow\/4402056\/detail.html?qs=;s=1;w=320\">pengins walk through the metal detectors <\/a> before boarding a flight.  It probably has something to do with loopy DC regulations and the possibility that a hand grenade is hidden in their fuzzy little bellies: Or maybe they just wanted to play with pengins (who doesn&#8217;t?).<\/p>\n<p>But never mind that, the pictures are priceless:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedenverchannel.com\/slideshow\/news\/4402056\/detail.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.opendna.com\/coppermine\/albums\/userpics\/thumb_4402059.jpg\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.opendna.com\/coppermine\/albums\/userpics\/thumb_4402060.jpg\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.opendna.com\/coppermine\/albums\/userpics\/thumb_4402061.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kudos <a href=\"http:\/\/roxanne.typepad.com\/rantrave\/2005\/04\/airport_insecur.html\">Michael Hussey @ Rox Populi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a perfectly good reason why TSA screeners in Denver decided to make pengins walk through the metal detectors before boarding a flight. It probably has something to do with loopy DC regulations and the possibility that a hand grenade is hidden in their fuzzy little bellies: Or [&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-50","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\/50","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=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}