{"id":8838,"date":"2013-05-19T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8838"},"modified":"2013-05-19T00:38:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T04:38:43","slug":"bizarre-foreign-service-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/bizarre-foreign-service-requests\/","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre Foreign Service Requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/051913_0320_BizarreFore1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom has issued a press release outlining some of the bizarre requests that diplomats have had to deal with. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A woman asked consular staff in Tel Aviv to force her husband to get fit so that they could have children.<\/li>\n<li>Consulates have often been asked for information about the best locations to watch football.<\/li>\n<li>In a bid to settle a \u00a31,000 wager staff in Montreal were asked for information about the colour of a British passport.<\/li>\n<li>A man wanted to run a tattoo by a representative in Rome to have it translated and ensure that it said what he thought it did.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more of some of the fascinating requests over <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2013\/05\/17\/british_foreign_office_to_drunk_britons_everywhere_no_we_cant_translate_that_tattoo\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2013\/05\/17\/british_foreign_office_to_drunk_britons_everywhere_no_we_cant_translate_that_tattoo\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom has issued a press release outlining some of the bizarre requests that diplomats have had to deal with. Highlights include: A woman asked consular staff in Tel Aviv to force her husband to get fit so that they could have children. Consulates have often been asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/051913_0320_BizarreFore1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8848,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8838\/revisions\/8848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}