{"id":95785347,"date":"2010-12-10T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T09:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/elephant-tails-and-dried-hedgehog-found-in-passenger-s-luggage\/"},"modified":"2010-12-10T09:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T09:33:00","slug":"elephant-tails-and-dried-hedgehog-found-in-passenger-s-luggage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/elephant-tails-and-dried-hedgehog-found-in-passenger-s-luggage\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant Tails and Dried Hedgehog Found in Passenger&#8217;s Luggage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nCustoms inspectors discovered elephant tails, a dried hedgehog and chameleons in the bags of an African traveler arriving at a Washington area airport, authorities reported on Thursday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nInspectors at Washington-Dulles International Airport found the unusual items during the routine search of a Ghanaian man&rsquo;s luggage the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said in a news release.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe other items in the unnamed 59-year-old&rsquo;s bag included chicken feathers, bloody sheets, seed pods and soil, which were to be used for &ldquo;spiritual purposes,&rdquo; Christopher Hess, CBP&rsquo;s Washington port director said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE6B86PI20101209\" target=\"_blank\"> Reuters <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Customs inspectors discovered elephant tails, a dried hedgehog and chameleons in the bags of an African traveler arriving at a Washington area airport, authorities reported on Thursday. Inspectors at Washington-Dulles International Airport found the unusual items during the routine search of a Ghanaian man&rsquo;s luggage the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95785347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95785347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95785347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95785347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95785347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}