{"id":6165,"date":"2023-09-02T20:11:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/state-department-expands-passport-phone-center-hours-and-u-s-senator-calls-for-more-hiring-amid-flood-of-applications\/"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:11:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:41:12","slug":"state-department-expands-passport-phone-center-hours-and-u-s-senator-calls-for-more-hiring-amid-flood-of-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/state-department-expands-passport-phone-center-hours-and-u-s-senator-calls-for-more-hiring-amid-flood-of-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department expands passport phone center hours, and U.S. senator calls for more hiring amid flood of applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/rockcms\/2023-01\/230130-airport-passengers-se-237p-6dd320.jpg\" \/><br \/>Amid an unprecedented surge in demand for U.S. passport processing, the State Department is expanding its application-processing call-center hours on weekends, as at least one U.S. senator says the agency should take additional measures to staff up.<br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Amid an unprecedented surge in demand for U.S. passport processing, the State Department is expanding its application-processing call-center hours on weekends, as at least one U.S. senator says the agency should take additional measures to staff up. [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}