{"id":217,"date":"2011-07-13T05:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:24:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:24:37","slug":"yet-another-reason-i-hate-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2011\/07\/13\/yet-another-reason-i-hate-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Reason I HATE California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a registration notice yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>This is typical of the way that California FUCKS it&#8217;s citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The notice arrives yesterday, It&#8217;s dated as Due in 3 days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>SO the BASTARDS start clocking LATE fees BEFORE you have a chance to get the damn payment to them. Yeah there are other ways to pay &#8217;em. You can use the internet or you can use AAA. But suppose you need to have a smog check?<\/p>\n<p>I guess you&#8217;re supposed to fuck over whatever schedule you had, whether that is going to work, or taking a trip, or suppose you&#8217;re out of town for a week?<\/p>\n<p>Depending on the amount of your WAY overpriced registration, the late fees can really add up.<\/p>\n<p>For the period 10 days after the due date you incur an approximately 23.5% increase.<br \/>\nFor the next 20 day period the increase is about 36%. For the period beyond it&#8217;s a 74% increase.<\/p>\n<p>Last year I paid more for my registration than my normal car payment.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\">I wouldn&#8217;t have minded except that the California roads are falling apart.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\">Potholes have cost me 4 wheels in the past 2 years if your rims cost 800.00 a piece you really don&#8217;t appreciate the shitty freeways, or crumbling surface streets.<\/div>\n<p>You know MY MORTGAGE, and my Credit Cards give me 30 days. At least they provide me with some kind of services.<\/p>\n<p>California is acting like a sleazy loan shark. I don&#8217;t like it, I think it&#8217;s wrong and I wonder if there&#8217;s any place better than this fucked up, third world shit hole.<\/p>\n<p>Time to go&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a registration notice yesterday. This is typical of the way that California FUCKS it&#8217;s citizens. The notice arrives yesterday, It&#8217;s dated as Due in 3 days&#8230; SO the BASTARDS start clocking LATE fees BEFORE you have a chance to get the damn payment to them. Yeah there are other ways to pay &#8217;em. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2011\/07\/13\/yet-another-reason-i-hate-california\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yet Another Reason I HATE California&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,3,14,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-general","category-politics","category-rants","category-why-california-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10487,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/10487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}