{"id":842,"date":"2009-11-16T22:57:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T02:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/?p=842"},"modified":"2009-11-16T23:06:35","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T03:06:35","slug":"new_ny_license_plate_design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2009\/11\/new_ny_license_plate_design\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot New License Plate Design or Hot Pile of #@&#038;!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The newly proposed NY license plate design. Gold with a blue swoosh? Are you kidding me with this?\" rel=\"lightbox-nyplates\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/new_york_license_plate_design.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom:8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/new_york_license_plate_design.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"The newly proposed NY license plate design. Gold with a blue swoosh? Are you kidding me with this?\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a New York motorist you&#8217;ve probably heard about Albany&#8217;s latest attempt to use your wallet to fix their budget gap. Beginning in May 2010 you <i>may<\/i> be required to buy a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.13wham.com\/news\/local\/story\/New-License-Plates-Fiasco\/IfT4miDz9UGbZ2JA1z6CWQ.cspx\" target=\"_new\">new set of plates <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:relative; top:2px;\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link\" width=\"15\" heigth=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> for your ride (starting at $25). I say &#8220;may&#8221; because this is not a done-deal and lawmakers just might buckle under the pressure from protesters and decide against the whole idea. But if Patterson has his way, your car may soon be adorned with lovely new blue and gold plates&#8230; GAG!<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps being a graphic designer disqualifies me from passing judgement, but based solely on the proposed design, I say this is a bad idea. But let&#8217;s take an informal poll&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2009\/11\/new_ny_license_plate_design\/#respond\">Leave a comment<\/a> and let us know what do you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a New York motorist you&#8217;ve probably heard about Albany&#8217;s latest attempt to use your wallet to fix their budget gap. Beginning in May 2010 you may be required to buy a new set of plates for your ride (starting at $25). I say &#8220;may&#8221; because this is not a done-deal and lawmakers just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,114,3],"tags":[194,12,477,476,474,475,308,479,310,478],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-rochester_news","category-mass_transit_infrastructure","tag-albany","tag-automobile","tag-governor-patterson","tag-graphic-design","tag-license-plates","tag-new-plates","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-state","tag-ny","tag-ny-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}