{"id":177,"date":"2004-02-05T12:03:54","date_gmt":"2004-02-05T12:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=177"},"modified":"2004-02-05T12:03:54","modified_gmt":"2004-02-05T12:03:54","slug":"plates_and_stat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Plates and states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m playing the <a href=\"\/blog\/2003\/12\/license_plates.html\">License Plate Game<\/a> again this year, and it&#8217;s going <em>much<\/em> better than in 2003. I only have 35 of the 50 states so far, but among those 35 are some that are quite rare in North Carolina. I spotted a Minnesota plate on Tuesday, and yesterday I saw one from Idaho. Idaho was one of the two states I never managed to get last year, so checking it off was especially satisfying.<br \/>\nThis morning, as I was driving to work, I glanced at a passing minivan and was astonished to see that it had front and rear plates from <em>Hawaii<\/em>. On the other hand, I still haven&#8217;t sighted a license plate from Kentucky, which is practically next door. But with eleven months to go, I&#8217;m not very concerned about that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m playing the License Plate Game again this year, and it&#8217;s going much better than in 2003.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=177\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}