{"id":3586,"date":"2010-07-14T06:47:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T10:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=3586"},"modified":"2010-07-14T06:47:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T10:47:02","slug":"wednesday-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2010\/07\/14\/wednesday-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Odds are, you probably neither know nor care about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2010worldlacrosse.com\/home\">World Lacrosse Championships<\/a> taking place in Manchester, England starting tomorrow (seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/local\/manchester\/hi\/things_to_do\/newsid_8811000\/8811519.stm\">lacrosse is huge in Manchester<\/a>; who knew?).  Thirty nations are participating.  Well, make that 29, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/SPORT\/07\/14\/sport.iroquois.passport.controversy\/\">Iroquois National team is stranded in NYC<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Being citizens of a sovereign nation (which happens to be located in Upstate NY and Canada), team members carry Haudenosaunee passports.  This has been good enough for the past 30+ years for traveling internationally, but now it seems that they low-tech passports don&#8217;t meet new high-tech standards, and, as the US government seems to be saying they won&#8217;t accept the passports for reentry, the British want a letter from the Department of State, stating that they&#8217;ll be allowed back into the US, or the team won&#8217;t be granted visas.  <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think that would be simple enough (what with the Secretary of State being a former NY State Senator, the Vice President being an SU alum and lacrosse fan, and current NYS Senator Kirsten Gillibrand &#8211; among others &#8211; making personal pleas to the DOS to fix this stupidity), but unless somebody steps up by today, the Iroquois team (ranked #4 in the world, BTW), will be unable to attend.  <\/p>\n<p>The US has offered to supply temporary US passports, but, the team said thanks, but no thanks.  The team has another flight booked for today.  Hopefully they&#8217;ll make it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odds are, you probably neither know nor care about the World Lacrosse Championships taking place in Manchester, England starting tomorrow (seems that lacrosse is huge in Manchester; who knew?). Thirty nations are participating. Well, make that 29, as the Iroquois National team is stranded in NYC. Being citizens of a sovereign nation (which happens to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3587,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions\/3587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}