{"id":61,"date":"2006-03-31T09:12:54","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T09:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/61"},"modified":"2014-04-11T22:40:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T21:40:03","slug":"mad-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/61","title":{"rendered":"Mad IDeas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will try to keep my remarks polite now that they have passed the ludicrous bill about ID cards. Here are a couple of points to ponder.<\/p>\n<p>The nearest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukpa.gov.uk\/general_offices.asp\">Passport Office<\/a> to Penzance, a place with which I have some affinity, is Newport, Wales. According to the terms of the bill, you will be required to visit a passport office to be photographed and fingerprinted.<\/p>\n<p>The chances of the Home Office establishing the necessary IT systems to support the National Identity Register by 2008 are virtually zero.<\/p>\n<p>For further thoughts see my <a href=\"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/misc\/idcards.htm\">old but still valid rant<\/a> about the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will try to keep my remarks polite now that they have passed the ludicrous bill about ID cards. Here are a couple of points to ponder. The nearest Passport Office to Penzance, a place with which I have some affinity, is Newport, Wales. According to the terms of the bill, you will be required [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}