{"id":162,"date":"2011-11-09T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=162"},"modified":"2011-11-09T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T19:55:00","slug":"passports-plenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2011\/11\/09\/passports-plenty\/","title":{"rendered":"Passports a Plenty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog7\/passport1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog7\/passport1.jpg\" style=\"cursor: move;\" \/><\/a>As I was gathering my things this morning from my desk I noticed three passports sitting together; none of them are legal. I&#8217;m not a spy or an international criminal, so why all the passports?<\/p>\n<p>Parks Canada currently offers a passport with the purchase of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pc.gc.ca\/voyage-travel\/carte-pass\/faq\/particip.aspx\">year pass<\/a> to the National and Historic Parks. You can get a stamp at each of the parks you visit and check them off on the last page.<\/p>\n<p>My friend Dallas picked up a Passeport Acadien at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pc.gc.ca\/lhn-nhs\/nb\/beausejour\/index.aspx\">Fort Beaus\u00e9jour<\/a> this summer and gave it to me as I&#8217;m a proud Acadian. The passport is symbolic of course and includes emblems and historical accounts relevant to Acadia.<\/p>\n<p>Last spring I got a <a href=\"http:\/\/coopwinesandspirits.com\/beers\">Beers of the World<\/a> Co-op passport when I got some international beer. With every new kind of international beer, you get a stamp and you can redeem the stamps for a gift after every 12 stamps.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog7\/passport2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was gathering my things this morning from my desk I noticed three passports sitting together; none of them are legal. I&#8217;m not a spy or an international criminal, so why all the passports? Parks Canada currently offers a passport with the purchase of a year pass to the National and Historic Parks. You &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2011\/11\/09\/passports-plenty\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6,15,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-162","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-beer","9":"category-calgary","10":"category-canadiana","11":"category-food","12":"category-travel","13":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}