{"id":361,"date":"2003-03-19T08:12:09","date_gmt":"2003-03-19T08:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=361"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:42:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:42:32","slug":"license-plate-laughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"License Plate Laughs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I&#8217;ve been one-upped.  I was so proud of my <a href=\"http:\/\/jmatt.net\/blog\/article.php?story=20030201161213333\" Target=\"Offsite\">Lick Bush 04<\/a> bumper sticker. This morning on my way to work, I pulled up behind someone who topped me. His license plate said <b>FPOTUS<\/b>. I briefly considered the possibility that it meant something other than the obvious (at least, obvious to me), especially considering the lack of spacing or punctuation on license plates. But when I got closer and saw his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/\" Target=\"Offsite\">The Onion<\/a> bumper sticker, it left no doubt that he really did mean F POTUS!  I was just sorry that he turned before I got a chance to pull alongside and give a thumbs-up. I wonder if one of John Asscroft&#8217;s new counter-liberty systems will search DMV records for subversive license plates.<\/p>\n<p>\nUpdate &#8211; my boss pointed out that FPOTUS does have another meaning and suggested a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=fpotus&amp;btnG=Google+Search&amp;meta=site%3Dsearch\" Target=\"Offsite\">Google Search<\/a>. OK, he&#8217;s right (F stands for Former), but I don&#8217;t really think this guy was a retired high-level federal employee.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I&#8217;ve been one-upped. I was so proud of my Lick Bush 04 bumper sticker. This morning on my way to work, I pulled up behind someone who topped me. His license plate said FPOTUS. I briefly considered the possibility that it meant something other than the obvious (at least, obvious to me), especially considering&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=361\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">License Plate Laughs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-5P","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}