{"id":1298,"date":"2008-03-07T10:37:57","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T16:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2008\/03\/07\/next-up-toy-cavity-searches\/"},"modified":"2008-03-07T10:37:57","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T16:37:57","slug":"next-up-toy-cavity-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1298","title":{"rendered":"Next Up: Toy Cavity Searches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here at the Granade household, we&#8217;re down with the educational toys. If our kids happen to learn things while playing, that&#8217;s all fine and dandy. Still, I&#8217;m not sure I want them playing with a <a href=\"http:\/\/operationcheckpoint.com\/\">Scan-It, from OPERATION CHECKPOINT: Jr. Airport Security Education Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a toy airport x-ray machine! As the ad copy tells us, &#8220;This unique toy\/teaching aid provides ample amounts of healthy fun along with education and awareness of the security measures that people face in real life.&#8221; And just look at the box cover!<\/p>\n<div class=\"centerimage\">\n<img src='https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/scan-it-box.jpg' alt='Scan-It Box Cover' title='Imagine getting this for Christmas' \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Two kids play happily while, in the background, a line of people badly rendered using Poser wander through the airport of the future as envisioned in 1977. I guess some kids are willing to play &#8220;Airport and Public Security&#8221;, though that ranks right up there with playing &#8220;Accountant&#8221; in my mind. But having seen this, think of the other TSA-themed toys we could come up with. We&#8217;ll be rich!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, if that&#8217;s the proper word to use, to <a href=\"http:\/\/abovenyquist.livejournal.com\/\">Aaron<\/a> for the pointer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at the Granade household, we&#8217;re down with the educational toys. If our kids happen to learn things while playing, that&#8217;s all fine and dandy. Still, I&#8217;m not sure I want them playing with a Scan-It, from OPERATION CHECKPOINT: Jr. Airport Security Education Center. It&#8217;s a toy airport x-ray machine! As the ad copy tells &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1298\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Next Up: Toy Cavity Searches<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}