{"id":477,"date":"2006-08-31T19:36:24","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T16:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/31\/passport-%e2%80%93-check"},"modified":"2007-10-21T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2007-10-21T12:05:18","slug":"passport-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/31\/passport-check","title":{"rendered":"Passport \u00e2\u20ac\u201c check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday morning I went to pick up my passport. Luckily this time I didn&#8217;t have to queue at all (I went to the police station at 8:30 am). The lady asked me for my current passport that needed to be cancelled. I stared at her a bit and said I didn&#8217;t have a passport (I did have a 1-year passport in 1997). She still insisted, &#8220;it expires in January&#8221;. I said again I didn&#8217;t have a passport. Then she noticed that the paper that was attached to my passport had a wrong, but very similar, name. She apologised and said &#8220;I&#8217;m glad I didn&#8217;t rough you up more.&#8221; <img src=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_biggrin.gif\" alt=\":D\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My photo is still bad but it isn&#8217;t as noticeable under the plastic. This time I don&#8217;t look like I&#8217;ve escaped from prison as I did on my first passport.<\/p>\n<p>Next step: ETA (Electronic Travel Authority) and plane tickets&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For the whole story, see category <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/category\/once-in-a-lifetime\/tourist-of-oz\/\">Tourist of Oz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday morning I went to pick up my passport. Luckily this time I didn&#8217;t have to queue at all (I went to the police station at 8:30 am). The lady asked me for my current passport that needed to be cancelled. I stared at her a bit and said I didn&#8217;t have a passport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourist-of-oz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}