{"id":1609,"date":"2006-08-14T09:03:40","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T09:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2006\/08\/threat_level_dr\/"},"modified":"2006-08-14T09:03:40","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T09:03:40","slug":"threat_level_dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/threat_level_dr\/","title":{"rendered":"Threat Level drops to SEVERE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll be as relieved as I am that the UK Threat Level has been brought <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/4789169.stm\">down<\/a> to SEVERE which means &#8220;an attack is highly likely&#8221;.<br \/>\nObviously, having come off CRITICAL, when an attack was &#8220;imminent&#8221; we can rest a little bit &#8211; but not too much!<br \/>\nIn the meantime, airport security restrictions have been slightly relaxed, but passengers won&#8217;t be able to take advantage of them until tomorrow because it&#8217;ll take time to let the security personnel know about them. See how smooth the whole system works?<br \/>\nWe had the usual John Reid &#038; Douglas Alexander show on television and radio this morning letting us know all about this. Briefcase-sized hand luggage will be allowed as well as things like laptops. That&#8217;ll help some parts of the business community &#8211; if they stop flying then airlines go under. It won&#8217;t help Ryanair and Easyjet who&#8217;d be happy if we only brought on hand baggage as they can turn planes around quicker that way.<br \/>\nMeanwhile duty-free retailers, and in particular Boots, will be delighted to see any kinds of liquids or gels being banned. That&#8217;s going to mean lots of shaving gear, bottled water, deoderant and the like being sold in their stores.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"threat-level.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/threat-level.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"277\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll be as relieved as I am that the UK Threat Level has been brought down to SEVERE which means &#8220;an attack is highly likely&#8221;. Obviously, having come off CRITICAL, when an attack was &#8220;imminent&#8221; we can rest a little bit &#8211; but not too much! In the meantime, airport security restrictions have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}