{"id":304,"date":"2005-10-31T11:45:48","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T18:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2005-12-23T17:44:44","modified_gmt":"2005-12-24T01:44:44","slug":"one-more-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/31\/one-more-try\/","title":{"rendered":"One More Try"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=262\">entry<\/a> on the U.S. Green Card Lottery, my consciousness has been bugging me to submit the application. The fact that it&#8217;s now an online process makes everything much easier. This must have been our third or fourth year trying to apply for the lottery. Chee-hoi graciously let us use his home address for mailing purposes. I often wonder if one of us actually won the lottery only to have moved and not received the notice. Some official documents, I suspect the U.S. Green Card Lottery notice is one of them, are required to be returned even if the receipient requested mail forwarding. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/green_card_lotto.png\" width=\"395\" height=\"200\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"Green Card Lottery submission\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since my entry on the U.S. Green Card Lottery, my consciousness has been bugging me to submit the application. The fact that it&#8217;s now an online process makes everything much easier. This must have been our third or fourth year trying to apply for the lottery. Chee-hoi graciously let us use his home address &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/31\/one-more-try\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One More Try&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-to-day-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-4U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}