{"id":15597,"date":"2016-01-13T14:46:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T22:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/temporary-washington-license-not-a-valid-id\/"},"modified":"2016-01-13T14:46:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T22:46:59","slug":"temporary-washington-license-not-a-valid-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/temporary-washington-license-not-a-valid-id\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporary Washington license not a valid ID?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>I thought I was thinking ahead by getting my Washington license before the holiday break. It would be a new month by the time I got back from my vacation in New Jersey, and I wanted to get this over with.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I was pleased at the speed of the process at the facility in Kent. In less than 15 minutes, I had my temporary ID stashed in my wallet, with the assurance that the permanent one would soon arrive in the mail.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I had no problem getting through security at Sea-Tac. However, at Newark Liberty Airport, the TSA official was incredulous that I thought this flimsy piece of paper could possibly be considered a valid form of ID at an airport. Fortunately, I had additional identification with me; my health insurance card and a credit card allowed me to board the plane. Nevertheless, I had to suffer the indignity of being thoroughly searched by security.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Question: would it really be cost-prohibitive for a licensing facility to produce a laminated driver&#8217;s license with a holographic seal? Even a simple heads-up during the busy Christmas season would have been much appreciated.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Lynda Accisano<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I was thinking ahead by getting my Washington license before the holiday break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15597"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}