{"id":159,"date":"2007-12-01T20:17:04","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T02:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=159"},"modified":"2007-12-01T20:17:04","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T02:17:04","slug":"arriving-in-singapore-is-terrifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Arriving in Singapore is terrifying."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/singaporecustoms.jpg\" title=\"singaporecustoms.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/singaporecustoms.jpg\" alt=\"singaporecustoms.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both times I\u2019ve flown here there\u2019ve been a few minutes of panic as I leave the airplane. \u00a0The flyer says that prohibited items are prohibited, but it doesn\u2019t enumerate them! \u00a0It says that chewing gum, tobacco, and endangered animals may not be imported&#8230; do I have any of that? \u00a0And what if I have something that\u2019s prohibited but not on the list? \u00a0Or what if someone slipped a fake camera full of heroin into my backpack on the airplane? \u00a0And I just wrote on this form that I\u2019m a \u2018tourist\u2019 and that I\u2019m staying for 60 days&#8230; who does that?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px; padding-bottom: 0pt\">But, then I see the signs, and remember &#8212; Changi airport has two clearly marked customs lanes, a red one and a green one. \u00a0If you don\u2019t want your bags searched, you just take the green one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"line-height: 20px; padding-bottom: 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both times I\u2019ve flown here there\u2019ve been a few minutes of panic as I leave the airplane. \u00a0The flyer says that prohibited items are prohibited, but it doesn\u2019t enumerate them! \u00a0It says that chewing gum, tobacco, and endangered animals may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=159\">Continue reading <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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}