{"id":632,"date":"2008-02-01T08:59:24","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T13:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/02\/01\/friday-notes-still-wet-still-cold\/"},"modified":"2008-02-01T08:59:24","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T13:59:24","slug":"friday-notes-still-wet-still-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/02\/01\/friday-notes-still-wet-still-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Notes: Still Wet, Still Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/01\/31\/new-arlington-decal-is-this-a-joke\/\">Yesterday&#8217;s examination<\/a> of Arlington&#8217;s call to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/respect.ytmnd.com\/\">respect mah authoritah!<\/a>&#8221; (warning: sound at that link) reminded me of another public document apparently following the design principle of &#8220;there can never be too much Red, White &amp; Blue&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2007\/10\/26\/opinion\/main3414706.shtml\">the new passport<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Despite the fact that I was aware of the coming ugliness, I failed to renew my passport in time to take advantage of the old stock.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, every time I open it, I expect it to act like one of those old musical cards, except this one plays a Toby Keith song.\u00c2\u00a0  As you&#8217;ve probably heard a dozen times by now, yesterday was the first day that the US government started requiring passports for travel between Canada and the US.\u00c2\u00a0 A little sad, really, when even countries like Germany and Poland (they&#8217;ve got a slightly different history . . . ) can manage to avoid such silliness.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of travel &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegietokyo.com\/info4vegie\/articles\/article2.html\">this<\/a> is an excellent resource for vegetarians on their way to Japan (or a good sushi bar).\u00c2\u00a0 It explains, in detail, how to make sure your meal arrives veg friendly (and that your options range beyond seaweed and rice).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I wish I&#8217;d seen this before I went to Tokyo, where I found ordering veg food a surprisingly difficult process.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Looking for some new online reading?\u00c2\u00a0 Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/wwar1.blogspot.com\/\">WWI: Experiences of an English Soldier<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0 A relative has the full collection of Mr. William Henry Bosner Lanin&#8217;s letters home from the European theater, and is posting them exactly ninety years to the date they were written.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a really fascinating way to revisit the Great War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s examination of Arlington&#8217;s call to &#8220;respect mah authoritah!&#8221; (warning: sound at that link) reminded me of another public document apparently following the design principle of &#8220;there can never be too much Red, White &amp; Blue&#8221; &#8211; the new passport.\u00c2\u00a0 Despite the fact that I was aware of the coming ugliness, I failed to renew [&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":[2,3,5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-society","category-travel","category-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","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=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}