{"id":596,"date":"2004-12-15T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/2004\/12\/15\/free\/"},"modified":"2004-12-15T10:52:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-15T14:52:00","slug":"free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2004\/12\/free\/","title":{"rendered":"Free!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you hadn&#8217;t noticed, I&#8217;d not been doing much travelling for\nthe past couple of years.  In fact, my\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/2002\/09\/Blog\/2004\/11\/12#2004-11-protocol-independent-irony\">drive to D.C. last month<\/a>\nwas the first time I&#8217;d left the confines on the Canadian border in about\ntwo years (in contrast to the 350K+ miles accumulated in the previous\nthree!).  This was due to some issues I was having with the Canadian\ngovernment, in turn due to a case of mistaken identity; apparently there&#8217;s\nsome guy in Canada with my name and birthday(!!) who&#8217;s not quite so\nlaw-abiding as yours truly!<\/p>\n\n<p>I thought I was doing the smart thing in 2003 by applying for my\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cic.gc.ca\/english\/citizen\/index.html\">citizenship<\/a>\ninstead of a\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cic.gc.ca\/english\/pr-card\/index.html\">permanent resident card<\/a>.\nBut, in retrospect, that turns out not to have been such a good decision.  So I\nfinally applied for the card <em>in addition<\/em> to my citizenship, and I\nreceived the card yesterday.  Woohoo!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In case you hadn&#8217;t noticed, I&#8217;d not been doing much travelling for the past couple of years. In fact, my drive to D.C. last month was the first time I&#8217;d left the confines on the Canadian border in about two years (in contrast to the 350K+ miles accumulated in the previous three!). This was due [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}