{"id":17,"date":"2002-02-25T22:56:36","date_gmt":"2002-02-26T06:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=17"},"modified":"2004-11-12T00:41:31","modified_gmt":"2004-11-12T08:41:31","slug":"they-cut-off-his-big-blond-locks-im-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"they cut off his big blond locks, I&#8217;m told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed something odd about my passport: it is dated June 1998, but the photograph must have been taken before April.  (My hair was cut in September 1989, November 1994, April 1998 &#8211; when I stopped parting it &#8211; and January 2002.)<\/p>\n<p>How long does it take to issue a US passport?<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t remember the last time, but they say one never forgets the first:  When an opportunity for a trip to Spain suddenly arose in 1970, Mom took me to the passport office in Chicago.  We turned in our paperwork and the clerk said, &#8220;Okay, come back in ten days.&#8221;  &#8220;But we&#8217;re leaving on Tuesday!&#8221;  &#8220;Oh! In that case, three and a half hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed something odd about my passport: it is dated June 1998, but the photograph must have been taken before April. (My hair was cut in September 1989, November 1994, April 1998 &#8211; when I stopped parting it &#8211; and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=17\">Continue reading <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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mememe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}