{"id":696,"date":"2002-12-01T20:59:49","date_gmt":"2002-12-02T04:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=696"},"modified":"2006-12-07T22:13:55","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T06:13:55","slug":"bureaucracy-trumps-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"bureaucracy trumps reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn?pagename=article&amp;node=&amp;contentId=A51403-2002Nov1&amp;notFound=true\">The Strange Tale of Unlucky Luciano (washingtonpost.com)<\/a>.  It happened to me, too &#8211; partly.  Born to American parents in Italy, I had three birth certificates: two Italian (one since lost) and one from the US consulate in Venice.  One of the Italian papers says <i>nat<u>a<\/u><\/i>, the feminine form of &lsquo;born&rsquo;.  Happily, nobody ever needed to look at that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strange Tale of Unlucky Luciano (washingtonpost.com). It happened to me, too &#8211; partly. Born to American parents in Italy, I had three birth certificates: two Italian (one since lost) and one from the US consulate in Venice. One of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=696\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","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=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}