{"id":140,"date":"2006-08-13T11:07:22","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T16:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/wordpress\/?p=140"},"modified":"2006-08-13T11:07:22","modified_gmt":"2006-08-13T16:07:22","slug":"why-airplanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2006\/08\/13\/why-airplanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why airplanes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking about this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/terrorism\/story\/0,,1841140,00.html\">terrorist plot<\/a> that was uncovered earlier this week. It struck me as interesting that airplanes are still among terrorists&rsquo; main targets, despite all the extra security measures that have been put in place in recent years. Why would that be the case?\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Airplanes are eye-catching and dramatic. An explosion in an airplane sounds more horrible than an explosion killing the same number of people on a bus. Things falling out of the sky, big balls of fire etc.<\/li>\n<li>Airplanes are global. When people hear about a train crash on a different continent, it sounds far away. It&rsquo;s easier to relate to a distant plane crash. And of course it affects a large system, thus causing more disruption (although disruption is probably a secondary goal, if at all).<\/li>\n<li>It&rsquo;s a way to attack the US without ever being on US soil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking about this terrorist plot that was uncovered earlier this week. It struck me as interesting that airplanes are still among terrorists&rsquo; main targets, despite all the extra security measures that have been put in place in recent years. Why would that be the case? Airplanes are eye-catching and dramatic. An explosion in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current_affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}