{"id":8486,"date":"2003-01-02T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/1969\/12\/31\/and-let-there-be-light-ticket\/"},"modified":"2003-01-02T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-03T00:00:00","slug":"and-let-there-be-light-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/01\/and-let-there-be-light-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"And let there be light ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>John Seth was not happy when he returned to his car after<br \/>\nmaking an early afternoon delivery in downtown Seattle last month and found that<br \/>\nhe&#8217;d left his lights on. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>He was even less pleased when a city parking-enforcement<br \/>\nofficer handed him a $28 parking ticket. Not for being in a space illegally or<br \/>\nfor having an expired meter \ufffd it was for those headlights. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8221; &#8216;You left your lights on,&#8217; &#8221; Seth recalled the parking<br \/>\nofficer saying. &#8216;We can cite for it, so we do.&#8217; &#8221; <br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8220;It&#8217;s just insane.&#8221; Seth said yesterday. &#8220;And the worst<br \/>\npart of it was she smiled when she gave it to me and said, &#8216;Merry Christmas.&#8217; &#8221;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8230;If there&#8217;s any silver lining for Seth, it might be<br \/>\nthat if he had gotten the ticket today, it would be $38 instead of $28 because<br \/>\nof the city&#8217;s efforts to balance the 2003 budget. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>Still, &#8220;For the life of me, I can&#8217;t figure out what the<br \/>\npublic-safety issue is,&#8221; Seth said. &#8220;I mean, is a small child going to walk too<br \/>\nnear to your lights and be vaporized?&#8221;<\/font> [<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/134606626_ticket01m0.html\"\ntarget=_blank>Full Story<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p>There is going to be hell to pay for this, just wait till her supervisors<br \/>\nfound out she said &#8220;Merry Christmas.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Seth was not happy when he returned to his car after making an early afternoon delivery in downtown Seattle last month and found that he&#8217;d left his lights on.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}