{"id":333,"date":"2010-10-31T09:34:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T14:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=333"},"modified":"2010-10-31T09:34:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T14:34:46","slug":"333","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s See Some ID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve been meeting up with a conversation partner and I told her about the controversial law in Arizona that says that if a police officer suspects you are an illegal immigrant, he can ask to see your papers.\u00a0 She thought this was\u00a0 not unusual at all.\u00a0 Around here, if a police officer asks for your papers or ID, you show papers or ID.\u00a0 In fact, it is a law in Austria that you must have a photo ID with you at all times in public.\u00a0 Additionally, when you move to a new city, you have to register by filling out a form, having your landlord sign it, and\u00a0 bringing it to the courthouse.\u00a0 When we first got here, I thought it was only for foreigners, but it is actually required for everyone who moves, even just for a change in address in the same city, and it is considered completely normal.<\/p>\n<p>I can just imagine the uproar in the United States if they required people there to do these things.\u00a0 Some people in rural areas get upset about filling out the census every ten years.\u00a0 Imagine if we had to explicitly tell the government every time we moved.\u00a0 I think citizens of European countries trust their governments more than we trust ours.\u00a0 Whether or not that&#8217;s a good thing, I can&#8217;t say, but it seems to work alright for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve been meeting up with a conversation partner and I told her about the controversial law in Arizona that says that if a police officer suspects you are an illegal immigrant, he can ask to see your papers.\u00a0 She thought this was\u00a0 not unusual at all.\u00a0 Around here, if a police officer asks for [&hellip;]<\/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-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}