{"id":6088,"date":"2022-06-18T10:01:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T15:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6088"},"modified":"2022-06-18T10:01:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T15:01:48","slug":"maryland-yuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6088","title":{"rendered":"Maryland!\u00a0 Yuk!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Go around that state!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Glad we left and hope to keep returns at a minimum.\u00a0 One may suppose that it is infected by its proximity to decadent, left-wing D.C.\u00a0\u00a0 Upon return from a visit to my parents, we received a speeding ticket <em>in the mail<\/em> from Maryland authorities complete with a traffic photo of our car, asserting evidence of our violation of the law.\u00a0 Such efficiently mechanized tyranny and tax collection!\u00a0 Get those out-of-staters who can&#8217;t vote against a decadent government!\u00a0\u00a0 Money, money, money! (Tryanny, tyranny, tyranny!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Indeed, overspent on employee salaries and benefits, the state mechanizes traffic &#8220;policing&#8221; (reducing high cost of employing high-pay cops) and &#8220;polices&#8221; by means of cameras and U.S. mail!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 June, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Go around that state!) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Glad we left and hope to keep returns at a minimum.\u00a0 One may suppose that it is infected by its proximity to decadent, left-wing D.C.\u00a0\u00a0 Upon return from a visit to my parents, we received a speeding ticket in the mail from Maryland authorities complete with a traffic photo of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,30,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6089,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions\/6089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}