{"id":6441,"date":"2010-11-18T13:18:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T17:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6441"},"modified":"2010-11-18T15:02:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T19:02:38","slug":"put-pressure-on-the-airlines-to-rein-in-tsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/11\/18\/put-pressure-on-the-airlines-to-rein-in-tsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Put pressure on the airlines to rein in TSA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Megan McArdle<\/a> writes a Dear John letter to her long-time airline:<\/p>\n

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Dear Airline, I’m Leaving You<\/strong><\/p>\n

But don’t feel too bad. It’s not you, it’s me. Or rather, it’s the TSA.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to lie. It’s come between us. If I have to let someone else see me naked in order to be with you — well, I’m just not that kinky. And deep down, I don’t think you are either. I think it’s the TSA making you act like this. Frankly, you haven’t been the same since you started running around together.<\/p>\n

But I can’t put all the blame on them. I think you went along because you thought I had to have you — that I couldn’t live without you. That no matter what you did, I’d stay. And it’s true, you had a pretty strong hold on me. Took away the food, and I still loved you — who wanted to eat a terrible, fattening meal anyway? Narrowed the distance between the seats, and still I stayed, using my airline miles to upgrade to first class. Charge me for baggage? I’m an economics writer — I love unbundled products. So I can see where you got the idea that I’d stick by you no matter what.<\/p>\n

But the kinky stuff is just a bridge too far. I’m not saying I’ll never see you again: we can still meet up for a drink, or even a quick weekend trip to California. But our days are a regular item are through. I’m writing this letter because one of my commenters pointed out that it was only fair to let you know what was going on [. . .]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Megan McArdle writes a Dear John letter to her long-time airline: Dear Airline, I’m Leaving You But don’t feel too bad. It’s not you, it’s me. Or rather, it’s the TSA. I’m not going to lie. It’s come between us. If I have to let someone else see me naked in order to be with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,57,10],"tags":[201,202,451],"class_list":["post-6441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-humour","category-liberty","tag-securitytheatre","tag-travel","tag-tsa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1FT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6442,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441\/revisions\/6442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}