{"id":1261,"date":"2011-07-14T08:35:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T08:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2011-07-14T08:35:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T08:35:08","slug":"number-plate-interest-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/14\/number-plate-interest-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Number Plate Interest Rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>THREE times more people in the Isle of Man are interested in  cherished car number plates than the economy, according to statistics  released yesterday by government.<\/p>\n<p>The figures have been released by the Department of Economic Development in response to a written Tynwald question.<\/p>\n<p>A table of the top 100 downloads from the Isle of Man government\u2019s  official website has provided some revealing statistics with the  Cherished Vehicle Numbers Availability List on top of the pile by some  margin with the only 5-figure sum &#8211; 12,442.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, interest in the Manx economy comes much further down the  list by comparison with 4,324 downloads of the Economy 2014 Report.<\/p>\n<p>Another surprise is the number of downloads for the TT events  schedule which comes quite a distance down the list with only 3,304.<\/p>\n<p>The range of subjects covered is enormous and covers topics ranging  from cinema seating plans and school holiday dates to Japanese knotweed  and maps of the Isle of Man. However, the majority of downloads involve  documents such as driving licence renewal forms and many of a financial  nature, such as benefits and income tax.<\/p>\n<p>It also emerges that Manx residents are not too good at looking after  their passports! During the last 12 months an amazing 3,193  notifications were received that passports had been stolen or lost. It  equates to 3.6% of the whole population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THREE times more people in the Isle of Man are interested in cherished car number plates than the economy, according to statistics released yesterday by government. The figures have been released by the Department of Economic Development in response to<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/14\/number-plate-interest-rises\/\" role=\"button\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news","category-world-number-plate-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}