{"id":1017,"date":"2012-09-11T18:36:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T23:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2012-09-11T22:49:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T03:49:08","slug":"sept-11-memorial-does-the-world-trade-center-site-really-need-so-much-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"Sept. 11 memorial: Does the World Trade Center site really need so much security?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Once at the memorial you must go through a metal detector and your belongings must be X-rayed. Officers will inspect your ticket\u2014that invulnerable document you nearly left on your printer\u2014at least five times. One will draw a blue line on it; 40 yards (and around a dozen security cameras) later, another officer will shout at you if your ticket and its blue line are not visible. Eventually you\u2019ll reach the memorial itself, where there are more officers and no bathrooms. You\u2019re allowed to take photographs anywhere outside the security screening area\u2014in theory if <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2011\/09\/27\/cop_accosts_visitor_to_911_memorial.php\" target=\"_blank\">not always in practice<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/culturebox\/2012\/09\/sept_11_memorial_does_the_world_trade_center_site_really_need_so_much_security_.single.html#pagebreak_anchor_2\">Sept. 11 memorial: Does the World Trade Center site really need so much security? &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I talked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Schneier<\/a>, a leading thinker on security and the man who coined the term \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Security_theater\" target=\"_blank\">security theater<\/a>\u201d to describe measures that are visible or intrusive but also pointless or ineffective. Schneier responded to a description of the memorial\u2019s visible security with a pointed question: <strong>Is the memorial to the victims\u2014or to our collective stupidity?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once at the memorial you must go through a metal detector and your belongings must be X-rayed. Officers will inspect your ticket\u2014that invulnerable document you nearly left on your printer\u2014at least five times. One will draw a blue line on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1017\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[46,113],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current_events","tag-security","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}