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I had to take the kids in to get pass\u00adport pho\u00adtos done today, since we\u2019ll be trav\u00adel\u00adling with them out\u00adside of Canada. I found a loc\u00adal place with exper\u00adi\u00adence in tak\u00ading pho\u00adtos for dif\u00adfer\u00adent coun\u00adtries (Canada and New Zea\u00adl\u00adand); the require\u00adments are dif\u00adfer\u00adent. For example, Canada wants a white back\u00adground for the pho\u00adtos, while New Zea\u00adl\u00adand wants a light but not white back\u00adground. Both coun\u00adtries expect pho\u00adtos with eyes open and mouth closed and no vis\u00adible hands, so the pho\u00adto\u00adgraph\u00ader put a cloth over the hand hold\u00ading the front of the baby. She kept turn\u00ading to look at me, or smil\u00ading at the pho\u00adto\u00adgraph\u00ader, but even\u00adtu\u00adally we were done. For\u00adtu\u00adnately there is an inter\u00adsec\u00adtion set of who\u2019s allowed to sign the back of the pho\u00adtos to say this is really the child in the photo (our fam\u00adily doc\u00adtor); New Zea\u00adl\u00adand will allow any New Zeal\u00adander or one of a num\u00adber of pro\u00adfes\u00adsions<\/a> to be a wit\u00adness (guar\u00adant\u00ador of iden\u00adtity), while Canada insists on the pro\u00adfes\u00adsions<\/a> (doc\u00adtor, account\u00adant, etc). One could won\u00adder why people who engage in oth\u00ader pro\u00adfes\u00adsions aren\u2019t con\u00adsidered good enough to veri\u00adfy your iden\u00adtity in Canada. Why not your employ\u00ader, for example? And why is geoscient\u00adist on the list, but not phys\u00adi\u00adcist or com\u00adputer scientist?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had to take the kids in to get pass\u00adport pho\u00adtos done today, since we\u2019ll be trav\u00adel\u00adling with them out\u00adside of Canada. I found a loc\u00adal place with exper\u00adi\u00adence in tak\u00ading pho\u00adtos for dif\u00adfer\u00adent coun\u00adtries (Canada and New Zea\u00adl\u00adand); the require\u00adments are dif\u00adfer\u00adent. For example, Canada wants a white back\u00adground for the pho\u00adtos, while New \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cBaby Passports\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}