{"id":565,"date":"2010-04-23T07:33:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T07:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=565"},"modified":"2010-04-23T07:33:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T07:33:37","slug":"french-number-plate-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/23\/french-number-plate-system\/","title":{"rendered":"French Number Plate System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>WHEN the French government decided to bring in new number plates, it  all seemed simple. Under the old system, car-owners had to change their  plates every time they moved from one <em>d\u00e9partement<\/em> to another.  Under the new rules, which came into effect last year, a licence plate  belongs to the car even if the owner changes address. As a logical  consequence, new plates would no longer display <em>d\u00e9partement <\/em>numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Yet this was to underestimate the fierce attachment of the French to  their <em>d\u00e9partements<\/em>, first created after the 1789 revolution.  Under the first version of the new plan, the <em>d\u00e9partement<\/em> number  was to have been an optional add-on. One argument, never quite made  explicit, was that this would enable drivers to avoid stigmatisation.  Those from certain rough <em>banlieues<\/em>, such as Seine-Saint-Denis,  north of Paris (93), have always been treated with extra suspicion by  the police. They could now choose to be less identifiable on the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHEN the French government decided to bring in new number plates, it all seemed simple. Under the old system, car-owners had to change their plates every time they moved from one d\u00e9partement to another. Under the new rules, which came<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/23\/french-number-plate-system\/\" 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-565","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\/565","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=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}