{"id":2386,"date":"2004-08-23T09:55:35","date_gmt":"2004-08-23T14:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2386.html"},"modified":"2004-08-23T09:55:35","modified_gmt":"2004-08-23T14:55:35","slug":"hardly-a-reassuring-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/hardly-a-reassuring-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardly a reassuring sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can appreciate that we can&#8217;t let fear of terrorism run our lives, but I have to admit, I&#8217;d seriously reconsider going to the GOP convention if I heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/usnews\/issue\/040830\/whispers\/30whisplead_2.htm\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[US News &#038; World Report hears] that some conventiongoers are being asked to carry next-of-kin phone numbers on their persons, should emergency workers need to contact their relatives during the convention, set for August 30 to September 2 at Madison Square Garden.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Next-of-kin info<\/i>? That&#8217;s right around the time I start canceling my hotel reservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can appreciate that we can&#8217;t let fear of terrorism run our lives, but I have to admit, I&#8217;d seriously reconsider going to the GOP convention if I heard about this: [US News &#038; World Report hears] that some conventiongoers are being asked to carry next-of-kin phone numbers on their persons, should emergency workers need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}