{"id":199,"date":"2006-03-01T00:14:06","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T13:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/03\/01\/security-check\/"},"modified":"2006-03-01T00:14:06","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T13:14:06","slug":"security-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/03\/01\/security-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once I was hired for a job that required a security clearance.<\/p>\n<p>After putting in my application, I got a phone call from someone wanting to check a few details.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Uh oh!&#8221; I thought.<\/p>\n<p>She started by checking where I was born. &#8220;It says here you were born in London.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, that&#8217;s right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Was your father in England at the time?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>It was an odd question, and I had to think for a second. &#8220;Err&#8230; yes, yes he was,&#8221; I replied.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And what about your mother?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After putting in my security clearance application, I got a phone call from someone wanting to check a few details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,35,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-based-on-a-true-story","category-heroic-failures","category-story-telling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}