{"id":15915,"date":"2013-12-10T03:41:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T11:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=15915"},"modified":"2013-12-10T03:41:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T11:41:29","slug":"thank-god-we-have-these-heroic-tsa-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/10\/thank-god-we-have-these-heroic-tsa-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank God we have these heroic TSA agents!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To save us from armed and dangerous &#8230; erm, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktvb.com\/news\/regional\/234991731.html\" target=\"_blank\">sock monkey dolls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously. Here you have it, my friends. The vast power and stunning grandeur of government, all summed up in one act. <i>This<\/i> is the thing we&#8217;re taught all our lives to revere. <i>This<\/i> is the thing that claims to defend us against the horrors of anarchy. <i>This<\/i> person, <i>this<\/i> deed &#8212; and millions more like them every day &#8212; are what makes the grand institution to which we are expected to bow in wonder and cowering obedience. <\/p>\n<p><i>This<\/i> is the little man* behind the curtain of government.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m not referring to the sock monkey.<\/p>\n<p>(H\/T G.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>* Who in this case is a woman. But it hardly matters, because no matter your sex or preferences, you wouldn&#8217;t want to get intimate in any sense of the word with one of these &#8230; things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To save us from armed and dangerous &#8230; erm, sock monkey dolls. Seriously. Here you have it, my friends. The vast power and stunning grandeur of government, all summed up in one act. This is the thing we&#8217;re taught all our lives to revere. This is the thing that claims to defend us against the horrors of anarchy. This person, this deed &#8212; and millions more like them every day &#8212; are what makes the grand institution to which we are expected to bow in wonder and cowering obedience. This is the little man* behind the curtain of government. And&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/10\/thank-god-we-have-these-heroic-tsa-agents\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thank God we have these heroic TSA agents!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}