{"id":995,"date":"2006-04-08T23:23:22","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T04:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/995"},"modified":"2006-04-08T23:23:22","modified_gmt":"2006-04-09T04:23:22","slug":"stuff-that-shouldnt-be-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/995","title":{"rendered":"Stuff that shouldn&#8217;t be there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadstarproductions.com\/RoadStar\/Events-detail.asp?media2Id=2299\">Louisiana Swamp Romp<\/a> today.  At the gate there was a security guard.  She stopped me and asked to look in my fanny-pack.  She was taken aback when I asked, &#8220;And what are you looking for?&#8221;  Her response: &#8220;Stuff that shouldn&#8217;t be there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for that enlightenment.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, it could very well have been a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.securityandsafetysupply.com\/products-duty-gear\/bianchi-13.html\">concealed carry pack<\/a> and she never would have known.  Not to mention that my husband was carrying both a knife and a gun on his person (legally) and never even got a second look.<\/p>\n<p>Makes me regret not carrying today.  Stuff that shouldn&#8217;t be there.  WTF is that supposed to mean?  I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m madder at the mall-ninja for her vague and uber-authoritarian stance or at myself for unzipping the pack and showing her my collection of sunglasses.<\/p>\n<p>If I were carrying in the pack, I wouldn&#8217;t have been able legally to show her what was in it.  It&#8217;s a concealed handgun license for a reason.  So what if I had refused?  I wonder what she would have done.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to the Louisiana Swamp Romp today. At the gate there was a security guard. She stopped me and asked to look in my fanny-pack. She was taken aback when I asked, &#8220;And what are you looking for?&#8221; Her response: &#8220;Stuff that shouldn&#8217;t be there.&#8221; Thank you for that enlightenment. Ironically, it could very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,11,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}