{"id":570794,"date":"2010-05-19T13:06:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T17:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10006831"},"modified":"2010-05-19T13:56:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T17:56:47","slug":"new-jersey-says-your-bioch-license-plate-is-not-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/570794","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Says Your &#8220;BIOCH&#8221; License Plate Is Not Allowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/05\/5-19-2010%2012-33-00%20PM-thumb-250x144-40494.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Is &#8220;bioch&#8221; a bad word? New Jersey thinks so. They&#8217;re trying to take away one resident&#8217;s fabulous bioch vanity plates because they are &#8220;objectionable.&#8221; She&#8217;s upset because people like the plates and think they are funny.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They say, we knew you were here, we saw your car,&#8221; said the plate owner. &#8220;People know me by the plates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not offensive,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not even a real word.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From NJ.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The commission, in processing your request, erred and assigned a combination which is considered objectionable,&#8221; wrote Dodie Burrell, a supervisor in the Special Plate Unit, in a May 5 letter to Romano. &#8220;The commission has no alternative but to immediately recall the license plate &#8216;bioch.&#8217;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now she has no choice but to turn in the plates or New Jersey will not renew her registration. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2010\/05\/manville_woman_must_forfeit_he.html\" >Manville woman must forfeit her &#8216;Bioch&#8217; license plates after complaint of profanity<\/a> [NJ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is &#8220;bioch&#8221; a bad word? New Jersey thinks so. They&#8217;re trying to take away one resident&#8217;s fabulous bioch vanity plates because they are &#8220;objectionable.&#8221; She&#8217;s upset because people like the plates and think they are funny. &#8220;They say, we knew you were here, we saw your car,&#8221; said the plate owner. &#8220;People know me by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}