{"id":1453,"date":"2010-09-06T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2015-03-19T13:23:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T13:23:47","slug":"woman-denies-her-number-plates-promotes-nazi-ethos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/2010\/09\/woman-denies-her-number-plates-promotes-nazi-ethos\/","title":{"rendered":"Number Plates promotes Nazi ethos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New Zealand woman is refusing to change her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.createyourplate.co.uk\">personalised number plates<\/a>, despite a complaint it promotes white supremacism.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Marie Thompson told\u00a0a local paper\u00a0her plate \u2013 which reads &#8216;ARYAN 1&#8217; \u2013 is merely the initial and surname of an ex-boyfriend, Andrew Ryan. She says she was not aware of the more common association with the offending word until being told of the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aryan&#8221; is the word Nazi tyrant Adolf Hitler used to describe his &#8220;master race&#8221;. The unnamed complainant said they were &#8220;baffled&#8221; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\">number plate<\/a> was allowed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is really offensive, for pretty obvious reasons\u2026 How can somebody even have a plate like this approved?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand Transport Agency however is not going to force Ms Thompson to choose a less conspicuous set of characters, saying &#8220;it would require some other words, actions or gestures to be inciting. Ms Thompson paid $700 for the plate.<\/p>\n<p>Rejected <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\">number plates <\/a>in the past include TBAGGD, H8ACC and OLDKNT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Zealand woman is refusing to change her personalised number plates, despite a complaint it promotes white supremacism. Lisa Marie Thompson told\u00a0a local paper\u00a0her plate \u2013 which reads &#8216;ARYAN 1&#8217; \u2013 is merely the initial and surname of an ex-boyfriend, Andrew Ryan. She says she was not aware of the more common association with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137,139,138,6,4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10191,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions\/10191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}