{"id":1557,"date":"2014-10-14T07:35:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T14:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2014-10-13T14:38:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T21:38:01","slug":"why-are-you-in-fargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/14\/why-are-you-in-fargo\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why are you in Fargo?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not an existential question, it&#8217;s what happens when the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/2014\/10\/10\/nobel-prize-airport-security\/\">TSA encounters a Nobel Prize medal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThey\u2019re like, \u2018Sir, there\u2019s something in your bag.\u2019<br \/>\nI said, \u2018Yes, I think it\u2019s this box.\u2019<br \/>\nThey said, \u2018What\u2019s in the box?\u2019<br \/>\nI said, \u2018a large gold medal,\u2019 as one does.<br \/>\nSo they opened it up and they said, \u2018What\u2019s it made out of?\u2019<br \/>\nI said, \u2018gold.\u2019<br \/>\nAnd they\u2019re like, \u2018Uhhhh. Who gave this to you?\u2019<br \/>\n\u2018The King of Sweden.\u2019<br \/>\n\u2018Why did he give this to you?\u2019<br \/>\n\u2018Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.\u2019<br \/>\nAt which point, they were beginning to lose their sense of humor. I explained to them it was a Nobel Prize, and their main question was, \u2018Why were you in Fargo?\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not entirely convinced that they had a sense of humor to begin with, but we&#8217;ll let that one slide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not an existential question, it&#8217;s what happens when the TSA encounters a Nobel Prize medal. \u201cThey\u2019re like, \u2018Sir, there\u2019s something in your bag.\u2019 I said, \u2018Yes, I think it\u2019s this box.\u2019 They said, \u2018What\u2019s in the box?\u2019 I said, \u2018a large gold medal,\u2019 as one does. So they opened it up and they said, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/14\/why-are-you-in-fargo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Why are you in Fargo?&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}