{"id":15430,"date":"2024-03-07T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15430"},"modified":"2024-03-06T23:52:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T05:52:53","slug":"license-plate-letters-obe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/03\/license-plate-letters-obe\/","title":{"rendered":"License Plate Letters \u2014 OBE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is confirmation via reader e-mail and personal observation that license plates have entered the O&#8217;s. This did not happen with the 1997 series, which skipped from N to P.<\/p>\n<p>It <em>did<\/em>, however, happen with the 1986 series, which began to be issued in January 1985. On Nov. 17, 1984, the <em>Cedar Rapids Gazette<\/em> had a front-page story with a photo of plates the Linn County Treasurer&#8217;s Office had already received. First up was OQA 000. This series was exclusively the second half of the alphabet, and the fact that Linn got O&#8217;s indicates that the largest population counties may have gotten them out of order before an alphabetical-by-county issuance.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that many Linn County residents are members of the Order of the British Empire, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is confirmation via reader e-mail and personal observation that license plates have entered the O&#8217;s. This did not happen with the 1997 series, which skipped from N to P. It did, however, happen with the 1986 series, which began &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/03\/license-plate-letters-obe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-license-plates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15431,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15430\/revisions\/15431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}