{"id":913,"date":"2015-12-19T16:35:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T22:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=913"},"modified":"2015-12-19T16:37:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T22:37:49","slug":"913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=913","title":{"rendered":"You Shall Not Pass: Making the Most of Your Passport"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/people.howstuffworks.com\/passport.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/5c\/British_biometric_passport.jpg\" alt=\"A British biometric passport. \" width=\"178\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A British biometric passport.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The idea of a document that extends protections over subjects as they travel is old &#8212; as in, Old Testament old. But the standardized booklet that we now use for establishing identity and citizenship when crossing international borders has only been with us for about a century. More to the point, in the post-9\/11 world, it&#8217;s become a lot more important.<\/p>\n<p>In this article, I cover the ins and outs of how to get one, when you&#8217;ll need one, and what to do if you lose one. \u00a0Along the way, I&#8217;ll pass along some travel tips, discuss passport alternatives and help you protect your children from \u00a0abduction across national borders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/people.howstuffworks.com\/passport.htm\" target=\"_blank\">How Passports Work\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of a document that extends protections over subjects as they travel is old &#8212; as in, Old Testament old. But the standardized booklet that we now use for establishing identity and citizenship when crossing international borders has only been with us for about a century. More to the point, in the post-9\/11 world, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=913\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You Shall Not Pass: Making the Most of Your Passport<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,290,73,13,43,291],"tags":[1056,1057,1058,115,816,1059,1053,1054,1055,437],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-law-2","category-materials","category-technology","category-travel","category-treaties","tag-childrens-passport-issuance-alert-program","tag-cpiap","tag-e-passport","tag-nanotechnology","tag-rfid","tag-skimming","tag-visa","tag-western-hemisphere-travel-initiative","tag-whti","tag-world-war-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}