{"id":1292,"date":"2012-07-10T17:01:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T21:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachuslex.com\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2012-07-10T17:01:56","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T21:01:56","slug":"best-job-he-ever-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"Best Job He Ever Had"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/29\/business\/29road.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">the New York Times account<\/a> of a TSA procedure that has been around since at least 2011 in which agents will occasionally yell &#8220;Freeze&#8221; and all passengers within earshot are to remain where they are without moving until &#8220;freed.&#8221; \u00a0This ludicrous and controversial procedure has generated new media coverage recently along with the drink &#8220;testing&#8221; procedure I mentioned in <a href=\"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/?p=1274\" target=\"_blank\">my last cartoon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All of this makes me wonder exactly how the TSA selects the &#8216;crack&#8217; agents to which we entrust our civil liberties. \u00a0I have to imagine it is something like this &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1293\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/monachuslex.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Best_Job_He_Ever_Had.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"470\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading the New York Times account of a TSA procedure that has been around since at least 2011 in which agents will occasionally yell &#8220;Freeze&#8221; and all passengers within earshot are to remain where they are without moving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/?p=1292\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,77,98,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abuse-of-power","category-political-cartoons","category-travel","category-tsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}