{"id":39303,"date":"2004-05-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-17T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/05\/17\/plane-spotters-to-require-government-license\/"},"modified":"2004-05-17T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-17T07:00:00","slug":"plane-spotters-to-require-government-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040517-00\/?p=39303","title":{"rendered":"Plane-spotters to require government license"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/london\/3682329.stm\">  Plane-spotters to require government license<\/a>.  The article spins it as a &#8220;benefit&#8221; for ground-based aviation buffs,  but this is just one of those &#8220;two steps back, one step forwards&#8221;  things.  Plane-spotters were outright banned from airports in the  summer of 2003.\n  Now they can go back, but they&#8217;ll need to shell out &pound;15  for the privilege.\n  And if I, random small-time aviation buff, want to go out and look at the  pretty planes as they fly overhead, I&#8217;m out of luck.  The &#8220;authorized&#8221; plane admirers might even report me as a security risk.<\/p>\n<p>  I hope I won&#8217;t be  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/politics\/0,1283,56214,00.html\">  convicted of international espionage<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plane-spotters to require government license. The article spins it as a &#8220;benefit&#8221; for ground-based aviation buffs, but this is just one of those &#8220;two steps back, one step forwards&#8221; things. Plane-spotters were outright banned from airports in the summer of 2003. Now they can go back, but they&#8217;ll need to shell out &pound;15 for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-39303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Plane-spotters to require government license. The article spins it as a &#8220;benefit&#8221; for ground-based aviation buffs, but this is just one of those &#8220;two steps back, one step forwards&#8221; things. Plane-spotters were outright banned from airports in the summer of 2003. Now they can go back, but they&#8217;ll need to shell out &pound;15 for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}