{"id":5,"date":"2008-01-02T15:35:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T07:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/02\/knitting-needles-at-your-discretion\/"},"modified":"2008-01-02T15:35:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T07:35:51","slug":"knitting-needles-at-your-discretion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/02\/knitting-needles-at-your-discretion\/","title":{"rendered":"Knitting needles at your discretion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find it incredibly ridiculous that the TSA website states that knitting needles are allowed, but at the discretion of the screener, may be determined to be a weapon. They&#8217;re either a weapon or they&#8217;re not. Knitting needles may or may not be dangerous, but they are NOT the problem and I resent having to worry about whether the TSA screener in question is having a bad day in determining whether I&#8217;m going to have anything to do on my flight tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>If the regulations really served a security purpose, you&#8217;d think they could some up with some sort of objective standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find it incredibly ridiculous that the TSA website states that knitting needles are allowed, but at the discretion of the screener, may be determined to be a weapon. They&#8217;re either a weapon or they&#8217;re not. Knitting needles may or may not be dangerous, but they are NOT the problem and I resent having to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}