{"id":361,"date":"2007-08-01T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/?p=361"},"modified":"2007-08-01T00:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T00:24:00","slug":"my-extra-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"My extra screening"},"content":{"rendered":"

It became obvious at JFK that TSA (or other people) were paying special attention to me. The hoops I had to jump through and the number of people that handled and checked off on my boarding pass was impressive. I always expected something like this really, people are just too paranoid to expect anything else. I do wish that they’d use a little sense though. If I were a terrorist (and for any government types that might be reading this, I am most certainly not one) and wanted to do something on a plane, I wouldn’t tell them that I was flying to Sana’a , I’d fly to Hackensack or something. Plus, why all the scrutiny on my way there? I would expect more on the way back. On my way back into the US, the immigration guy at JFK did ask me why I went to the places I did. He seemed happy with my answer (I’m a student) and didn’t press further. IF<\/em> there needs to be more scrutiny (and I don’t think there needs to be in this case), why not have it when I’m coming back into the country? Anyway, this was the first time that I have seen any indication that my government is suspicious of me. Hopefully, some people that have some clout will read this blog and see where I stand so I don’t have all of the hurdles to jump through next time….<\/p>\n

tags technorati : yemen<\/a> tsa<\/a> terrorism<\/a> middle<\/a> east<\/a> security<\/a> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It became obvious at JFK that TSA (or other people) were paying special attention to me. The hoops I had to jump through and the number of people that handled and checked off on my boarding pass was impressive. I always expected something like this really, people are just too paranoid to expect anything else. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}