{"id":430,"date":"2009-09-14T09:57:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T13:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=430"},"modified":"2009-09-14T09:57:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T13:57:25","slug":"alabama-state-trooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"Alabama State Trooper&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow&#8230; on the way to Alabama this past weekend, we found ourselves at a &#8220;checkpoint.&#8221;\u00a0 There were a couple of Alabama State Trooper cars and a couple of Valley Head, AL police cars blocking AL 117 coming out of Valley Head&#8230; I don&#8217;t know if they were looking for somebody or a sobriety check (though, he never asked if I had been drinking&#8230;) or maybe &#8220;click it or ticket.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, of course he asked for my license and my proof of insurance.<\/p>\n<p>License &#8211; Check.<br \/>\nProof of Insurance &#8211; Whoops.<\/p>\n<p>He checked my ID and then went and looked at my Tag (presumably to run it to make sure I have insurance, which, of course, I do.)\u00a0 He came back chuckling&#8230; he found it amusing that I had &#8220;University of Alabama&#8221; on my Georgia tag.\u00a0 And just for that, he let me go.\u00a0 Never did I dream that my tag would get me though an Alabama checkpoint without a ticket for not having proof of insurance or anything.<\/p>\n<p>But, you know&#8230; it did and I found that amusing. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow&#8230; on the way to Alabama this past weekend, we found ourselves at a &#8220;checkpoint.&#8221;\u00a0 There were a couple of Alabama State Trooper cars and a couple of Valley Head, AL police cars blocking AL 117 coming out of Valley &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=430\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}