{"id":3329,"date":"2009-04-16T15:42:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T15:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=3329"},"modified":"2009-04-16T15:42:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T15:42:48","slug":"holy-crap-im-british","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/16\/holy-crap-im-british\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy crap, I&#8217;m British!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just received a phone call from the lawyer handling my immigration case. I am now officially British<sup>&dagger;<\/sup>. I&#8217;ll shortly be getting my certificate of naturalization, with which I will be able to apply for a full British passport. YAWP!<\/p>\n<p>This means, of course, that more money needs now leave my poor, depleted account. We&#8217;ve just this morning transferred close to \u00a337,000 to our solicitor to cover the house deposit and all the various fees that are the last step before the contract exchange, and then the house is ours.<\/p>\n<p>Egads!<\/p>\n<p><sup>&dagger;<\/sup> Conditionally on calling up the Cambridge registry office and setting up an appointment to take an oath to the Queen, of course :) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just received a phone call from the lawyer handling my immigration case. I am now officially British&dagger;. I&#8217;ll shortly be getting my certificate of naturalization, with which I will be able to apply for a full British passport. YAWP! This means, of course, that more money needs now leave my poor, depleted account. We&#8217;ve&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/16\/holy-crap-im-british\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Holy crap, I&#8217;m British!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,151,49],"class_list":["post-3329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-house","tag-slice-of-life","tag-the-british-way"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-RH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3330,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions\/3330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}