{"id":761,"date":"2010-11-24T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/24\/a-trip-to-the-bmv\/"},"modified":"2010-11-24T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T15:44:00","slug":"a-trip-to-the-bmv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/24\/a-trip-to-the-bmv\/","title":{"rendered":"A trip to the BMV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I seriously don&#8217;t know what the fuss is all about &#8211; I&#8217;ve never had a bad experience at the BMV.  Of course, I always have all my documents ready in advance and I pick a time of day designed to avoid long lines, but still, you&#8217;d think the odds would go against me at some point.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I had to get my registration and driver&#8217;s license renewed recently.  Well, not &#8220;had to&#8221; since I&#8217;ve got until my birthday in January.    But I got the notices in the mail and figured I might as well get it out of the way.   <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I stood in line for maybe a minute before being called up to the counter.   Rachelle asked me a few questions, took my paperwork, and directed me over to the eye exam station.  I passed that test, then back over to sign a form.  She took my check, handed me the sticker for my license plate, then directed me over to the photo station.    In a couple minutes, the driver&#8217;s license had printed out and I was on my way.   I think I was in the building for maybe 15 minutes total.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The photo, however, is terrible and shall never see the light of day.  Not Rachelle&#8217;s fault &#8211; I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever seen a really good photo on one of these things.   <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, I&#8217;m preemptively legal and on the road.<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6913097901389264887-1214017440373425380?l=thunderofwade.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seriously don&#8217;t know what the fuss is all about &#8211; I&#8217;ve never had a bad experience at the BMV. Of course, I always have all my documents ready in advance and I pick a time of day designed to avoid long lines, but still, you&#8217;d think the odds would go against me at some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}