{"id":2974,"date":"2011-09-01T23:06:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T23:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2011\/09\/passports_dont_\/"},"modified":"2011-09-01T23:06:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T23:06:17","slug":"passports_dont_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/passports_dont_\/","title":{"rendered":"Passports Don&#8217;t Like Washing Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the sad news that I learnt this week following an unfortunate incident that essentially involved me not checking the pockets of a pair of trousers.<br \/>\nInterestingly, if you need a replacement in a rush and you check the relevant section of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.direct.gov.uk\/en\/TravelAndTransport\/Passports\/Loststolenordamagedpassports\/DG_174163\">Direct.gov website<\/a>, you are told that the Premium one-day service is not available for replacement passports.<br \/>\nIn my case, a forthcoming trip meant that timescales were tight and I opted for the one-week service. But that still means an interview in a passport office. And when I phoned their hotline, the London office had no available interview slots in the period I needed to get to it.<br \/>\nSo it was off to sunny Peterborough, where the friendly staff were very efficient, and my application was swiftly processed. Then &#8211; very surprisingly &#8211; I was asked if I wanted the same-day service. That is, the service the website said wasn&#8217;t available.<br \/>\nGiven all the fun of having to be around when a courier delivered the new passport, I said yes. And just over three and a half hours later, I had my new passport.<br \/>\nI thought it was worth sharing this information in case you, dear reader, ever face something similar.<br \/>\nPS A certain DJ of my acquaintance tells me that he&#8217;s put his passport through the washing machine on no fewer than three separate occasions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the sad news that I learnt this week following an unfortunate incident that essentially involved me not checking the pockets of a pair of trousers. Interestingly, if you need a replacement in a rush and you check the relevant section of the Direct.gov website, you are told that the Premium one-day service is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}