{"id":1609,"date":"2016-01-18T02:43:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T10:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2016-01-18T02:43:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T10:43:31","slug":"shuttlegate-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/01\/18\/shuttlegate-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Shuttlegate 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you hear about <em>Shuttlegate<\/em>?\u00a0 Because of increased security at the <strong><em>Golden Globes<\/em><\/strong>, everyone not in a limo had to park in a single garage about a mile away from the venue.\u00a0 The lines in the garage were endless, with celebs and civilians alike waiting over two hours to go through a metal detector and board a shuttle.\u00a0 The trades quoted people as saying, &#8220;This is like waiting to get off the <em>Titanic<\/em>&#8221; or &#8220;It was like a prison camp&#8221;.\u00a0 Such a <em>First World<\/em> problem.\u00a0 Meanwhile there are people in Uzbekistan who don&#8217;t even have cable!\u00a0 To avoid this, I found a parking spot nearby and walked to the hotel.\u00a0 Well, I attempted to walk to the hotel.\u00a0 A burly cop of undetermined gender stopped me and said I could not cross the street to the venue because it was a secured area.\u00a0 &#8220;Really?\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think so.&#8221;\u00a0 The hand on the <em>Taser <\/em>told me I should think again.\u00a0 Undaunted, I walked down the block to the next corner.\u00a0 Again, I was stopped.\u00a0 But this time I said that the other security guard sent me there.\u00a0 &#8220;S\/he said it would be OK.&#8221;\u00a0 Success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you hear about Shuttlegate?\u00a0 Because of increased security at the Golden Globes, everyone not in a limo had to park in a single garage about a mile away from the venue.\u00a0 The lines in the garage were endless, with celebs and civilians alike waiting over two hours to go through a metal detector and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}