{"id":15279,"date":"2003-01-10T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-10T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/10\/morons-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2003-01-10T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-10T16:57:00","slug":"morons-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/10\/morons-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Morons Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Maine couple&rsquo;s attempt to make a political statement by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/TRAVEL\/01\/09\/luggage.hoax\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">rigging up a fake bomb in their checked luggage<\/a> led to their arrest, officials said Thursday&hellip;Screeners also found a note that read, &lsquo;To the uniformed puppet opening this bag &ndash; congratulations. You&rsquo;ve just brought this once free nation one step closer to becoming a fascist police state,&rsquo; according to Transportation Security Administration spokesman Robert Johnson. The note was scribbled on one side of the cardboard torn from a box of Cracklin&rsquo; Oat Bran.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think the Cracklin&rsquo; Oat Bran was just the touch of class needed to add some much-needed levity to the situation&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-90167817?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports: A Maine couple&rsquo;s attempt to make a political statement by rigging up a fake bomb in their checked luggage led to their arrest, officials said Thursday&hellip;Screeners also found a note that read, &lsquo;To the uniformed puppet opening this bag &ndash; congratulations. You&rsquo;ve just brought this once free nation one step closer to becoming &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/10\/morons-of-the-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Morons Of The Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}