{"id":10666,"date":"2014-05-25T23:20:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T23:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=10666"},"modified":"2014-05-26T23:28:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T23:28:56","slug":"finnur-visits-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/finnur-visits-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnur Leaves for California"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Written 26 May 2014]<\/p>\n

Finnur’s twice-yearly trip to California is upon us. \u00a0He left early Sunday morning, flying through Boston.<\/p>\n

\"Saying<\/a>

Saying goodbye to the kiddos, before Emma and I drove him to a nearby bus-stop where the airport bus stops.<\/p><\/div>\n

He sent this little message back once he’d gotten through immigration and customs:<\/p>\n

\n

They let me in through passport and customs control here in Boston. The experience with the former was a bit uncomfortable as the line was HUGE and\u00a0the guy asked for proof that I was returning back and wouldn’t let me pull up the phone to show my itinerary. Which is basically my only copy (electronic).<\/p>\n

He then proceeded to grill me about my work permit back when we lived in the US and scolded me again upon leaving his booth for not bringing a printout of my itinerary — which he said is a requirement for the ESTA visa program (Seattle immigration have never asked for that).<\/p>\n

And besides, not much security in a printout over what I have in my trip planner app! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

But, anyway – I’m through and have a few hours to kill before my flight.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oh, US immigration. \u00a0You’re so much fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Written 26 May 2014] Finnur’s twice-yearly trip to California is upon us. \u00a0He left early Sunday morning, flying through Boston. He sent this little message back once he’d gotten through immigration and customs: They let me in through passport and customs control here in Boston. The experience with the former was a bit uncomfortable asRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10670,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10666\/revisions\/10670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}