{"id":90,"date":"2006-09-20T21:07:58","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T13:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worksforfood.com\/read\/2006\/09\/20\/hkid\/"},"modified":"2006-09-20T21:07:58","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T13:07:58","slug":"hkid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/2006\/09\/20\/hkid\/","title":{"rendered":"HKID"},"content":{"rendered":"

I picked up my HKID today, fortunately finding a cooperative fingerprint reader this time. I’m no longer an unperson to the Government, although many locals would beg to differ. It might have my best ID picture yet on it, but that’s probably because it’s in glamorous black and white.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I have a dental appointment in TMTP. This is not a drill—I hope. Just a checkup and scaling. The phone Engrish has been tolerable (got a reminder call today) and I hope the Doc’s at least matches it.<\/p>\n

Thailand seems to be purging its Thaksins. I can’t say I’ll cry much for him. The gremlin on my shoulder is whispering things about ends and means but I’m trying to block him out.<\/p>\n

The Mainland seems to be thrilled at this news because it gives it an excuse to issue strongly-worded statements about states’ internal affairs :-) On the (TVB Pearl) news tonight, Taiwan’s (apparently well-funded and nattily-dressed) protesters were suggesting that “President” (to use the China Daily<\/i> formulation) Chen take note of the coup. Fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I picked up my HKID today, fortunately finding a cooperative fingerprint reader this time. I’m no longer an unperson to the Government, although many locals would beg to differ. It might have my best ID picture yet on it, but that’s probably because it’s in glamorous black and white. Tomorrow I have a dental appointment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}