{"id":391,"date":"2005-09-16T09:47:06","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T13:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/16\/german-stereotype-furthered-by-german-policy\/"},"modified":"2005-09-16T09:47:06","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T13:47:06","slug":"german-stereotype-furthered-by-german-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/16\/german-stereotype-furthered-by-german-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"German stereotype furthered by German policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/thumb_sterngerman.gif\" width=\"130\" height=\"97\" alt=\"Unsmiling German\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the AP <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20050915\/ap_on_fe_st\/germany_smiles_verboten\">article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBERLIN &#8211; Germans were ordered Thursday to stay serious when having their photographs taken for new passports, wiping away any grins, smirks or smiles so that biometric scanners can pick up their facial features.<br \/>\nInterior Minister Otto Schily ordered passport authorities to only accept pictures taken from the front showing the &#8220;most neutral facial expression possible,&#8221; starting Nov. 1.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the AP article: BERLIN &#8211; Germans were ordered Thursday to stay serious when having their photographs taken for new passports, wiping away any grins, smirks or smiles so that biometric scanners can pick up their facial features. Interior Minister Otto Schily ordered passport authorities to only accept pictures taken from the front showing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}