{"id":262,"date":"2014-02-13T15:30:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T20:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2014-05-25T11:35:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T15:35:32","slug":"262","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/13\/262\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripped from the license plate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I returned from the gym to find, instead of the usual <em>un<\/em>-mutiliated license plate adorning the rear of my car, the following:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140212_1709111.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"761\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/13\/262\/img_20140212_1709111\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140212_1709111.jpg?fit=2962%2C1488&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2962,1488\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.65&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Nexus 4&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1392224951&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_20140212_170911[1]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140212_1709111.jpg?fit=660%2C331&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-761 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140212_1709111.jpg?resize=300%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140212_1709111.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140212_1709111.jpg?resize=1024%2C514&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140212_1709111.jpg?resize=500%2C251&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140212_1709111.jpg?w=1320&amp;ssl=1 1320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140212_1709111.jpg?w=1980&amp;ssl=1 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had never seen anything like this before, so I called the DMV. They told me it happens all the time, and all I needed to do was go to the local office and get a new plate and registration sticker (the assumed reason for cutting off the corner of the plate). After $5.50 and 30 minutes everything was as good as new, but I can&#8217;t help but imagine that, after my laptop\/backpack\/shoe theft almost exactly a month ago, I&#8217;ve somehow acquired an improbable-crime entourage.<del><\/del><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I returned from the gym to find, instead of the usual un-mutiliated license plate adorning the rear of my car, the following: I had never seen anything like this before, so I called the DMV. They told me it happens all the time, and all I needed to do was go to the local office &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/13\/262\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ripped from the license plate!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[84],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-theft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1rmW5-262","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}