{"id":690,"date":"2005-05-10T13:54:27","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T20:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/i-know-i-slept-safer-last-night\/"},"modified":"2005-05-10T13:54:27","modified_gmt":"2005-05-10T20:54:27","slug":"i-know-i-slept-safer-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/i-know-i-slept-safer-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"I Know I Slept Safer Last Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>An inside source tells me the lead fiddler for the Old Blind Dogs, a scottish band <a title=\"Duke City Fix \u00bb Best of UK Folk in ABQ\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dukecityfix.com\/index.php?itemid=264\">playing in Albuquerque<\/a>, could not enter the country because of &#8216;passport irregularities.&#8217; The photo on his passport had a turned up edge &#8212; it might have been tampered with! Thank god he was detained at the border and our defenders couldn&#8217;t be persuaded by, say, CD covers, fliers, ads &#8212; his fiddle. All that stuff can be faked, you know.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying that a Scottish musician should not be subjected to the same examination as anyone else &#8212; I&#8217;m not for profiling. However, we need to remember every day how ridiculously we reacted to 9\/11; we need to remember our own collective madness born of grief. We take off our shoes to protect America. Yeah, good response. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An inside source tells me the lead fiddler for the Old Blind Dogs, a scottish band playing in Albuquerque, could not enter the country because of &#8216;passport irregularities.&#8217; The photo on his passport had a turned up edge &#8212; it might have been tampered with! Thank god he was detained at the border and our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/i-know-i-slept-safer-last-night\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Know I Slept Safer Last Night<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}