{"id":566,"date":"2005-08-06T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-06T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=566"},"modified":"2006-10-08T10:28:44","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T10:28:44","slug":"584-of-truth-is-stranger-than-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"[564] Of truth is stranger than fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samizdata.net\/blog\/archives\/007880.html\">Samizdata<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bureaucratic mind at work, from the WSJ Political Diary:<\/p>\n<p><em>Before deploying from Savannah, Georgia to Iraq by a chartered airliner, the troops of the 48th Brigade Combat Team, a National Guard unit, had to go through the same security checks as any other passengers. Lt. Col. John King, the unit&#8217;s commander, told his 280 fellow soldiers that FAA anti-hijacking regulations require passengers to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and cigarette lighters. &#8216;If you have any of those things,&#8217; he said, almost apologetically, &#8216;put them in this box now.&#8217; The troops were, however, allowed to keep hold of their assault rifles, body armour, helmets, pistols, bayonets and combat shotguns&#8221; &#8212; reported in the Air Finance Journal.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What can I say?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Samizdata: The bureaucratic mind at work, from the WSJ Political Diary: Before deploying from Savannah, Georgia to Iraq by a chartered airliner, the troops of the 48th Brigade Combat Team, a National Guard unit, had to go through the same security checks as any other passengers. Lt. Col. John King, the unit&#8217;s commander, told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}