{"id":800,"date":"2010-08-26T08:48:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T08:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=800"},"modified":"2010-08-26T08:48:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T08:48:28","slug":"washington-number-plate-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/26\/washington-number-plate-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Number Plate Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>Washington drivers who got new car licenses recently have a little more on their plates: an additional numeral.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s new seven-character plates are showing up more frequently  in Southwest Washington as people move into the state, license newly  purchased vehicles or get replacements for old six-character plates.<\/p>\n<p>The new plates for passenger cars and SUVs follow the \u201cABC1234\u201d format.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went to a seven-character plate for passenger vehicles at the  beginning of the year,\u201d Brad Benfield, a spokesman for the Washington  State Department of Licensing, said from Olympia. \u201cIt\u2019s because we ran  out of six-character configurations. We have been using those for a long  time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since adopting the format in 1968, the state actually went through the available combinations of letters and numbers twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington drivers who got new car licenses recently have a little more on their plates: an additional numeral. The state\u2019s new seven-character plates are showing up more frequently in Southwest Washington as people move into the state, license newly purchased<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/26\/washington-number-plate-changes\/\" 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-800","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\/800","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=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}