{"id":286,"date":"2024-02-23T16:16:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T16:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasbrucestudio.wordpress.com\/?p=286"},"modified":"2025-03-08T18:20:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T18:20:53","slug":"why-the-sad-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/why-the-sad-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Passport Photo Tips so you Don&#8217;t get Rejected!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Passport photo tips so you don&#8217;t get rejected! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why the Sad Face?<\/strong> <strong><em>Because my Country makes me do it.. <\/em><\/strong>There&#8217;s a prevailing theory on why government<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> officials do not want you to smile in your passport photos&#8230;<br><br>They want you to look like you&#8217;re going to look after traveling all night in a packed airplane, surrounded<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by screaming children, irritated travelers, being fed peanuts for dinner, and crammed into a seat meant <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">for a short, skinny, waif.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"591\" src=\"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/208087-1024x591.jpeg\" alt=\"A close-up of a colorful clown doll with a sad expression lying in a woven basket.\" class=\"wp-image-11616\" style=\"width:438px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>You need to look angry, hungry, tired, frustrated, disheveled, and worn out.<br><br>Okay, maybe not quite that bad, but you get the idea. They want your photo and your face to look similar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">once the machine at the customs counter tries to match you to your passport photo. But that doesn&#8217;t <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">mean you REALLY have to look that way. In fact, here at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/thomasbruce.com\">Thomas Bruce Studio,<\/a> we pride ourselves on <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">providing you the very best passport photo on the market. We light it properly, we make it razor sharp, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and we allow your eyes to smile without forcing your mouth to follow suit. It&#8217;s the best of both worlds!<br><br>Located at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/thomasbrucestudio.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2227 49th St. N., St Petersburg<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blog\/post\/edit\/7160396906750017404\/1961659082989353729\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">,<\/a>&nbsp;parking and entrance in the back.<br><br>By Appointment Only&#8230; 727-577-5626<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know you cant smile for your passport picture anymore&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[172],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-passports","tag-passport-photo-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11617,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/11617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbruce.com\/website_1d889e57\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}