{"id":98881334,"date":"2010-11-21T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/children-now-exempt-from-enhanced-pat-downs\/"},"modified":"2018-10-05T11:12:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T15:12:04","slug":"children-now-exempt-from-enhanced-pat-downs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/children-now-exempt-from-enhanced-pat-downs\/","title":{"rendered":"Children Now Exempt From Enhanced Pat-Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children are now exempt from the modified pat-downs at airports that have enraged some passengers. Instead kids will face less-intrusive hand searches from screeners, the TSA said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a thorough risk assessment and after hearing concerns from parents, we made the decision that a modified pat-down would be used for children 12 years old and under who require extra screening,\u201d a TSA spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>TSA began \u201cenhanced\u201d pat-downs last month on passengers who refuse to enter body scanners.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.usatoday.com\/flights\/post\/2010\/11\/no-enhanced-pat-downs-for-kids-tsa-says\/131686\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> USA TODAY <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children are now exempt from the modified pat-downs at airports that have enraged some passengers. Instead kids will face less-intrusive hand searches from screeners, the TSA said. &nbsp; \u201cAfter a thorough risk assessment and after hearing concerns from parents, we made the decision that a modified pat-down would be used for children 12 years old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98896960,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881334\/revisions\/98896960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}