{"id":10784,"date":"2016-06-26T12:30:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T16:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/?p=10784"},"modified":"2016-06-26T12:30:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T16:30:50","slug":"new-license-plates-for-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/new-license-plates-for-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"New license plates for Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Odometer: 1069 miles<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Mass Registry of Motor Vehicles notified me that my ham radio plates are in. Now I just have to get my insurance to certify my RMV-3 and drive to the Leominster RMV and exchange the old plates for the new.<\/p>\n<p>Why ham radio plates? I got them because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m a ham radio operator with a 4 letter call sign, which makes for a nice vanity plate, and<\/li>\n<li>Ham plates have a nifty lightning bolt on them, which seems most appropriate for an electric vehicle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And with a vehicle named Lightning, I couldn&#8217;t resist going for the ham plate, even though I&#8217;ve never bothered with them before.<\/p>\n<p>So playing the odds regarding the rarity of silver Teslas (it&#8217;s a rather uncommon color) and hams with 4 letter callsigns, if you see a silver Tesla with a MA 4-letter ham plate, it&#8217;s most probably me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odometer: 1069 miles The Mass Registry of Motor Vehicles notified me that my ham radio plates are in. Now I just have to get my insurance to certify my RMV-3 and drive to the Leominster RMV and exchange the old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/new-license-plates-for-lightning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[839],"tags":[840],"class_list":["post-10784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-cars","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10785,"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10784\/revisions\/10785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlhowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}