{"id":341,"date":"2008-01-28T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alison.gloderworks.net\/weblog\/?p=341"},"modified":"2008-01-28T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T00:54:00","slug":"satin-covered-but-apparently-hazardous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Satin Covered, But Apparently Hazardous!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> It never occurred to me this would be turned back – the security officials in the departures area at the Montevideo airport last week insisted that because it was metal, I would not be able to take this item through in my hand luggage! I had feared they might<\/em> question how long it was since the genuine horsehoe inside had been on a farm or at a rececourse. I was blown away, gobsmacked. I pleaded that this accessory is a symbol for luck to give to our DD at her wedding on friday night – but no go.
It’s not large – max 5″, but it is a genuine metal (iron?) one, quite heavy, and covered with palest almond satin ribbons and fake flowers. It would have gone just fine with the ivory dress. Well, I wasn’t going to hand over this frothy creation of mine for someone to just toss into a bin – and fortunately I was early enough to call someone to the airport and take it home for me. When DH and I go up again in a few months’ time for the fiesta\/reception we’ll take it in our checked luggage. When the officials saw my dismay they were very kind, but most insistent; and my linguistic skills didn’t run to the finer points of whether or not this was weapons grade metal – and so I didn’t crack any jokes. These guys have guns on their hips. I suppose there was a danger I could have tossed it and knocked someone out – quite ridiculous. Actually I have always thought how easy it would be to do someone a serious injury with the one thing that every traveller carries – a ball point pen.<\/span><\/em> But at least American Airlines entrust their passengers with actual metal knives – unlike our own aussie Qantas , who, last time I travelled with them were still issuing eaters with grey, metallic-looking, but pathetically weak plastic knives.<\/span><\/em> <\/p>\n

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It never occurred to me this would be turned back – the security officials in the departures area at the Montevideo airport last week insisted that because it was metal, I would not be able to take this item through in my hand luggage! I had feared they might question how long it was since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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":[134,132,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridal-accessory","category-horseshoe","category-symbol-of-luck"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-5v","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}