{"id":15716,"date":"2014-10-01T12:27:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T11:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15716"},"modified":"2014-10-01T12:27:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T11:27:04","slug":"how-secure-is-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15716","title":{"rendered":"How secure is the White House?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not very if you read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/sep\/30\/secret-service-white-house-intruder-omar-gonzalez\">this story<\/a>. Any US President &#8211; but especially the first black one and a man I admire so much &#8211; needs much better protection than this at the building that is his home and office. <\/p>\n<p>It makes a couple of recent Hollywood action movies look a little less unlikely than first appeared. I refer to &#8220;Olympus Has Fallen&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FilmsO-R.html#OHF\">here<\/a>] and &#8220;White House Down&#8221;. [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FilmsT-Y.html#WHD\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>I have been to the White House twice on public tours &#8211; but that was in the olden days when anyone could visit and terrorism was not the scourge it is today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not very if you read this story. Any US President &#8211; but especially the first black one and a man I admire so much &#8211; needs much better protection than this at the building that is his home and office. It makes a couple of recent Hollywood action movies look a little less unlikely than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15716"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15722,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716\/revisions\/15722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}