{"id":1154,"date":"2008-08-21T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2008-08-21T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T22:46:00","slug":"us-passport-card-skip-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/08\/21\/us-passport-card-skip-it\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Passport Card: Skip It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard of the <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.state.gov\/passport\/ppt_card\/ppt_card_3926.html\">U.S. Passport Card<\/a> last year, and I assumed that it was an ID document that was specifically offered for the convenience of populations living along the Mexican and Canadian borders.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"imagefloatleft\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.state.gov\/images\/newppt_card.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"116\" \/> That&#8217;s still the stated purpose on the State Department site, but there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.yahoo.com\/question\/index?qid=20080320161335AAGe5P2\">at least one account<\/a> of it being pushed as a low-cost alternative to a regular passport. \u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/matadorpulse.com\/us-passport-card-worth-the-hassle\/\">This article<\/a> over at Matador Pulse does a good job of running down the reasons that it&#8217;s a bad alternative to a regular passport (tho&#8217; the concern about the card&#8217;s RFID chip applies equally well to regular passports).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard of the U.S. Passport Card last year, and I assumed that it was an ID document that was specifically offered for the convenience of populations living along the Mexican and Canadian borders.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s still the stated purpose on the State Department site, but there&#8217;s at least one account of it being pushed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}