{"id":3130,"date":"2002-08-06T11:49:38","date_gmt":"2002-08-06T16:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2002-08-06T11:49:38","modified_gmt":"2002-08-06T16:49:38","slug":"greatest_americ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/06\/greatest_americ.html","title":{"rendered":"Greatest American Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman carrying a G.I. Joe toy onboard an airplane at LAX was forced to check the doll and discard its 2″ gun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for Los Angeles International Airport said: “We have instructions to confiscate anything that looks like a weapon or a replica. If GI Joe was carrying a replica then it had to be taken from him.” <\/p>\n

Now, don’t you feel much safer?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A woman carrying a G.I. Joe toy onboard an airplane at LAX was forced to check the doll and discard its 2″ gun. A spokesman for Los Angeles International Airport…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127457,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/06\/ont-looks-like-it-will-return-to-local-control.html","url_meta":{"origin":3130,"position":0},"title":"ONT looks like it will return to local control","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Aug-15 9:14am","format":false,"excerpt":"Ontario International Airport (ONT) is a fine airport off in the eastern reaches of the greater LA metro area, serving the \"Inland Empire\" and, more particularly, my mom.Unfortunately, under the management of the \"Los Angeles World Airport\" (which has operated LAX, ONT, and Van Nuys), the airport has fallen into\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":38584,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/28\/movie-review-g-i-joe-retaliation.html","url_meta":{"origin":3130,"position":1},"title":"Movie Review: "G.I. Joe: Retaliation"","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Aug-13 1:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey, it's not like I spent money to watch it on my business trip flight out. \u00a0And it made the time pass a bit more quickly. \u00a0No, actually, it's not bad. It's not good, but it's not bad. A \u2605\u2605\u00bd review of G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) This flick is more\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":40858,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/23\/george-jetson-doesnt-eat-here-any-more.html","url_meta":{"origin":3130,"position":2},"title":"George Jetson Doesn't Eat Here Any More","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 23-Jan-14 1:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The faboo space age \"Theme Building\" restaurant at LAX has closed. \u00a0It's had a checkered career, but the main issue seems to be that it wasn't good enough to be a \"destination\" restaurant (as if anyone would want to brave traffic\u00a0to LAX to dine, including the hassle of parking), and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27717,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/the-decline-of-ontario-airport.html","url_meta":{"origin":3130,"position":3},"title":"The Decline of Ontario Airport","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 2-May-12 2:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've flown in and out of Ontario International Airport -- ONT, off in Riverside (or is it San Bernardino?) County for ... well some decades. It's always been a great regional airport, convenient for anyone in the Inland Empire or east San Gabriel Valley ... pretty much anyone who's not\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8343,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/08\/ive_got_the_pow.html","url_meta":{"origin":3130,"position":4},"title":"I’ve got the power!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 8-Dec-05 2:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There's no answer in this PC World article, but the question is a good one: Why are airport lounges power-free zones? As far as I can tell, the world has...","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","block_context":{"text":"Travel","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/travel"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2369,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/05\/and_sometimes_a.html","url_meta":{"origin":3130,"position":5},"title":"And sometimes a cigar is just an exploding cigar","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 5-Jul-02 8:39am","format":false,"excerpt":"An Egyptian man pulls out a pistol and begins shooting at the El Al ticket counter at LAX, killing three before he, himself is gunned down, and what's the focus...","rel":"","context":"In "Geopolitical Brouhaha"","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}