{"id":4515,"date":"2009-12-30T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2009-12-30T03:00:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T08:00:19","slug":"its-no-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4515","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s No Masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geekandpoke.typepad.com\/geekandpoke\/2009\/12\/security-theatre.html\">Security Theater<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a little perspective:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2009\/12\/odds-of-airborne-terror.html\">FiveThirtyEight:  The Odds of Airborne Terror<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Over the past decade, according to BTS, there have been 99,320,309 commercial airline departures that either originated or landed within the United States. Dividing by six, we get <strong>one terrorist incident per 16,553,385 departures<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is an underlying Maginot mentality to the way the TSA implements most security measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security Theater Here&#8217;s a little perspective: FiveThirtyEight: The Odds of Airborne Terror Over the past decade, according to BTS, there have been 99,320,309 commercial airline departures that either originated or landed within the United States. Dividing by six, we get &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4515\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,40,44,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoon","category-politics","category-satire","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}