{"id":181,"date":"2007-05-31T21:58:25","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T02:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitstep.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/31\/getting-a-passport\/"},"modified":"2007-05-31T21:58:25","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T02:58:25","slug":"getting-a-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/31\/getting-a-passport\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting a passport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went down to the passport office yesterday (in Edmonton) to apply for a passport, and the process was a lot more quick and painless than I expected.  As long as you&#8217;ve read the directions, filled out the form properly and brought proper credentials, it shouldn&#8217;t take long.  I was only in there for about half an hour, and this was at lunchtime, when there would probably be more people than normal.  I was initially worried because my former housemate had applied for a passport through the mail, and it took close to four months for his to arrive.  They said mine should arrive within a month or so, so let&#8217;s hope for the best &#8211; it looks like the big &#8220;rush&#8221; to get passports is mostly over.  <\/p>\n<p>If you can, definitely go to the local passport office to apply.  It will be much faster and you don&#8217;t have to send sensitive stuff like your birth certificate in the mail.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went down to the passport office yesterday (in Edmonton) to apply for a passport, and the process was a lot more quick and painless than I expected. As long as you&#8217;ve read the directions, filled out the form properly and brought proper credentials, it shouldn&#8217;t take long. I was only in there for about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55,11,134],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}