{"id":780,"date":"2010-08-18T09:41:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T09:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=780"},"modified":"2010-08-18T09:41:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T09:41:15","slug":"north-carolina-wtf-numberplates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/18\/north-carolina-wtf-numberplates\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina WTF Numberplates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>Earlier this summer, New York City&#8217;s Metropolitan Transit Authority  announced that it would be rearranging some of its subway signs because  they resembled a slightly naughty bit of internet slang.<\/p>\n<p>The  signage for the F, M, and L lines read &#8220;FML,&#8221; which savvy web users know  as self-deprecating shorthand for &#8220;F &#8212; My Life.&#8221; The double meaning of  its signs caught the transit authority off guard, but they&#8217;ve worked  quickly to switch around the letters.<\/p>\n<p>New York&#8217;s subways are  hardly the first victims of acronym problems, though. Let&#8217;s take a look  at ten other organizations, places, and businesses that have realized a  bit too late that their initials meant a little more than they had  intended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this summer, New York City&#8217;s Metropolitan Transit Authority announced that it would be rearranging some of its subway signs because they resembled a slightly naughty bit of internet slang. The signage for the F, M, and L lines read<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/18\/north-carolina-wtf-numberplates\/\" 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-780","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\/780","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=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}