{"id":2389,"date":"2007-12-22T08:24:38","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T13:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/22\/us-bill-would-delay-passport-requirement\/"},"modified":"2007-12-22T08:24:38","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T13:24:38","slug":"us-bill-would-delay-passport-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/22\/us-bill-would-delay-passport-requirement\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. bill would delay passport requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1190\">St. Catharines Standard<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Passports won&#8217;t be necessary for Americans and Canadians entering the United States by land until mid-2009 &#8211; a year later than planned &#8211; if a budget bill passed Thursday by Congress is approved by U.S. President George W. Bush.<\/p>\n<p>A provision of a budget bill passed Thursday pushes back by a year the plan by the Department of Homeland Security to require passports from border-crossers from Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean as a way of strengthening national security.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the St. Catharines Standard: Passports won&#8217;t be necessary for Americans and Canadians entering the United States by land until mid-2009 &#8211; a year later than planned &#8211; if a budget bill passed Thursday by Congress is approved by U.S. President George W. Bush. A provision of a budget bill passed Thursday pushes back by&#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_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-2389","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\/2389","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=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}