{"id":270,"date":"2007-08-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/08\/30\/not-in-my-airport\/"},"modified":"2007-08-30T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T15:00:00","slug":"not-in-my-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/08\/30\/not-in-my-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"not in my airport!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/273-stalls.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104362483709581442\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/274-stalls.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>i felt woefully uninformed when i learned that senator larry craig (r-idaho) was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/archive\/years\/2007\/0828071craig1.html\">picked up for lewd public restroom behavior<\/a> at <em>my <\/em>airport. what&#8217;s all this about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HHtdtbmIGyY\">foot-tapping<\/a>? and blocking the door with one&#8217;s luggage? this appears to be a well-choreographed old-school tearoom rather than an ill-timed individual act. there was apparently enough activity in this restroom to motivate the rather extensive sting operation that netted the distinguished senator.<\/p>\n<p>highway rest stops i can understand, since locals can drive there with little cost. but isn&#8217;t the high-surveillance post-9\/11 airport a strange place for anonymous hookups? i mean, the only folks who can regularly hang out in such restrooms are airport employees (who do not appear to be a <em>particularly<\/em> randy bunch) and those with overpriced tickets and planes to catch. are there message boards where one posts invitations such as, &#8220;<em>hey boys, i&#8217;ve got two hours between flights at MSP and i&#8217;m looking for a good time in a busy restroom. no liberals<\/em>.&#8221; the social organization of the activity just doesn&#8217;t make sense to me, unless there is <em>waaaaay <\/em>more pent-up demand among weary business travelers than i&#8217;d imagined. maybe so, maybe so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i felt woefully uninformed when i learned that senator larry craig (r-idaho) was picked up for lewd public restroom behavior at my airport. what&#8217;s all this about foot-tapping? and blocking the door with one&#8217;s luggage? this appears to be a well-choreographed old-school tearoom rather than an ill-timed individual act. there was apparently enough activity in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}