{"id":1672,"date":"2007-06-11T08:15:30","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T12:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/11\/confusing-passport-situation-just-got-worse\/"},"modified":"2007-06-11T08:15:30","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T12:15:30","slug":"confusing-passport-situation-just-got-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/11\/confusing-passport-situation-just-got-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Confusing passport situation just got worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?773\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tourism advocates in Niagara say Friday&#8217;s decision by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security to temporarily suspend the need for Americans to have a passport to return home after a trip to Canada or Mexico is going to make an already confusing situation even worse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It definitely adds to the confusion,&#8221; said Niagara Falls Tourism executive director Anna Pierce.<\/p>\n<p>The decision came after American travellers, frustrated their travel plans may be quashed because of the length of time it takes to obtain a passport, complained to state and federal politicians. The suspension is intended to clear the backlog of applications while the U.S. government tries to process applications more quickly.<\/p>\n<p>But it won&#8217;t apply to everyone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Tourism advocates in Niagara say Friday&#8217;s decision by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security to temporarily suspend the need for Americans to have a passport to return home after a trip to Canada or Mexico is going to make an already confusing situation even worse. &#8220;It definitely adds to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}