{"id":2843,"date":"2007-03-22T20:50:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T20:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2843"},"modified":"2007-03-22T20:50:23","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T20:50:23","slug":"crossing_the_bo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2843","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tkyte.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/crossing-border.html\">Tom Kyte<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It was that last bit.  The customs agent wanted to know &#8220;is that your employers laptop&#8221; &#8211; nope, it is mine.  &#8220;Do you do work on it, business work?&#8221;.  Well, I read email, browse the web, have all of my presentations on it, use it to present, run Oracle on it, demonstrate with it.  &#8220;So, it is your companies laptop then?&#8221;.  Nope, it is mine.<\/p>\n<p>They scribbled someone on the immigration form, handed it to me and said &#8220;have a nice trip&#8221;.  I head out of baggage claim &#8211; but instead of being told to go right (to freedom), I&#8217;m directed to the left &#8211; to additional scrutiny.  No worries &#8211; nothing to be found, no problem.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tkyte.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/crossing-border.html\">Tom Kyte<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It was that last bit.  The customs agent wanted to know &#8220;is that your employers laptop&#8221; &#8211; nope, it is mine.  &#8220;Do you do work on it, business work?&#8221;.  Well, I read email, browse the web, have all of my presentations on it, use it to present, run Oracle on it, demonstrate with it.  &#8220;So, it is your companies laptop then?&#8221;.  Nope, it is mine.<\/p>\n<p>They scribbled someone on the immigration form, handed it to me and said &#8220;have a nice trip&#8221;.  I head out of baggage claim &#8211; but instead of being told to go right (to freedom), I&#8217;m directed to the left &#8211; to additional scrutiny.  No worries &#8211; nothing to be found, no problem.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}