{"id":247,"date":"2006-05-12T13:49:14","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T12:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=247"},"modified":"2006-05-12T13:49:14","modified_gmt":"2006-05-12T12:49:14","slug":"your-papers-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Your papers, please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/resiak.livejournal.com\/\">resiak<\/a> wrote a while ago, the new identity checks (associated with the new biometric passports and identity cards) are going to be rolling out soon, so I decided to renew my passport early.  See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewforfreedom.org\/\">Renew For Freedom<\/a> for some more details.  Fancy being fingerprinted and interviewed in person when you want to renew your passport the next time?<\/p>\n<p>If you renew within 9 months of your current expiry date, all the extra &#8216;unused&#8217; time gets added to the validity time of your new passport, so mine will expire in early 2017.  Which is at least two elections away and probably at least one change of government away too.<\/p>\n<p>Renew <em>yours<\/em> now, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As resiak wrote a while ago, the new identity checks (associated with the new biometric passports and identity cards) are going to be rolling out soon, so I decided to renew my passport early. See Renew For Freedom for some more details. Fancy being fingerprinted and interviewed in person when you want to renew your&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=247\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}