{"id":1904,"date":"2011-09-23T15:37:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T22:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2012-01-04T17:37:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T01:37:46","slug":"tsa-hair-pat-downs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/tsa-hair-pat-downs\/","title":{"rendered":"TSA Hair Pat-downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1905\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1905\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1905\" title=\"fro\" src=\"http:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fro.jpg 640w, https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fro-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fro-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fro-299x299.jpg 299w, https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fro-625x625.jpg 625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by Robert S. Donovan (CC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.4em;\">I&#8217;m about a month late on this one, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/16\/business\/natural-hair-pat-downs-warrant-a-rethinking.html?_r=2\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a> has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/16\/business\/natural-hair-pat-downs-warrant-a-rethinking.html?_r=2\" target=\"_blank\">interesting article<\/a> about TSA hair pat downs in US airports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It sounds like there have been a couple of instances recently where TSA agents have singled out travellers with naturally large hair for special hair pat-downs even though they did not set off any detectors. \u00a0Meanwhile women with big blonde texas hair are just being waved through.<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts on hair putdowns when travelling?<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s truly wonderful to see more women wearing their hair naturally, so it&#8217;s sad to hear of stories like this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m about a month late on this one, but the New York Times has an interesting article about TSA hair pat downs in US airports. It sounds like there have been a couple of instances recently where TSA agents have singled out travellers with naturally large hair for special hair pat-downs even though they did &#8230; <a title=\"TSA Hair Pat-downs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/tsa-hair-pat-downs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about TSA Hair Pat-downs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,13,304],"tags":[306,72,285,305],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","category-life","category-news","tag-discrimination","tag-legal-2","tag-travel","tag-tsa","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2945,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions\/2945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}