{"id":4779,"date":"2004-01-08T11:23:52","date_gmt":"2004-01-08T10:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=4779"},"modified":"2004-01-08T11:23:52","modified_gmt":"2004-01-08T10:23:52","slug":"her-britannic-majesty-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2004\/01\/08\/her-britannic-majesty-requests\/","title":{"rendered":"Her Britannic Majesty requests&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/3378057.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC News\">BBC News &#8211; UK passport holders will need visas to enter US<\/a>. Whatever happened to being granted passage without let or hindrance?<\/p>\n<p>Aside: isn&#8217;t English a strange language? The verb <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/search?q=let\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"dictionary.com\">to let<\/a> can mean either &quot;to allow&quot; or &quot;to hinder&quot;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News &#8211; UK passport holders will need visas to enter US. Whatever happened to being granted passage without let or hindrance? Aside: isn&#8217;t English a strange language? The verb to let can mean either &quot;to allow&quot; or &quot;to hinder&quot;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}