{"id":3300,"date":"2009-12-15T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T08:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3300"},"modified":"2010-06-10T14:21:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T21:21:56","slug":"what-the-heck-is-a-passport-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3300","title":{"rendered":"What the heck is a passport card?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess you can get a passport card for going to Canada or Mexico, or a few other places, as long as you travel by air or sea. I figure I may as well see what it takes to get one, since carrying a passport is kind of a pain and then I can make another New Years resolution to see Canada and then do it on a whim if I have this card in my wallet. Of course I&#8217;d have to drive up there, which is 7 hours or so, making it less whim-worthy, but what the heck. I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s some catch I&#8217;m not seeing, though, and I&#8217;ll end up in some sort of Canadian prison where they only speak in Canadian French.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m dealing with some things by avoidance (things like driving to the coast for a memorial service, for example) and here&#8217;s a link to one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/index?ytsession=4V7iBaY2hsuJmQIAyd8BvhHeSnHH3rUWVJDF6qwbmUOREQG7549LadSmdMe_vXQA0BbN47m9aCx9GAtG9dqV0r2H4WzprvllBwA7y29DlOpjb7HCJK9A_U4oQz7V42-3adLeUKL_iusiTwN6XnvMVdVdPPSSWcZpSoA2t2eWjcT1uJtiZ23LT6A8tIb3Uta71LioWRsZvIG9E7WbsPxan5SACYEiHlJhapwq490ebD9VgZr0uy5wH69LMhHsyIgwKWJMq1DMMEXqBviBh3GSm0EwUThBQrtdD6JQuiRRkkxtS5B65l_XKcXgfZfcg8oewElviOifQDXNlIlLJWCJO2NRcro4NneK4-5dAKt7NIFvCnvPtjfwRQ\">music videos<\/a> you&#8217;d expect me to like. At least this song was used in an iPod Touch commercial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess you can get a passport card for going to Canada or Mexico, or a few other places, as long as you travel by air or sea. I figure I may as well see what it takes to get one, since carrying a passport is kind of a pain and then I can make another New Years resolution to see Canada and then do it on a whim if I have this card in my wallet. Of course I&#8217;d have to drive up there, which is 7 hours or so, making it less whim-worthy, but what the heck. I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s some catch I&#8217;m not seeing, though, and I&#8217;ll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3300\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What the heck is a passport card?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3870,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions\/3870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}