{"id":296,"date":"2006-05-23T07:30:56","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T07:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=296"},"modified":"2011-11-26T07:31:40","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T07:31:40","slug":"one-more-reason-to-be-glad-you-live-in-north-dakota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"One more reason to be glad you live in North Dakota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, I get my network service via satellite, which gives me the pleasure of New York and Los Angeles local newscasts. After watching the 24 finale tonight (wow) I saw a story about how New Yorkers were weaseling a way to license their vehicles in other states to save on their automobile insurance premiums. Then I saw this graphic:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/ny_insurance.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Yeah, that&#8217;s right! You could BUY a nice car for what many New Yorkers pay in annual premiums. So who cares if you can start at $10-15 at McDonald&#8217;s there&#8230;you have to pay stratospheric rent and confiscatory insurance premiums!<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s true that it&#8217;s easier for a guy making New York wages to buy a $20,000 car&#8230;but by the time he gets done paying to park and insure it, I suspect we get the better deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, I get my network service via satellite, which gives me the pleasure of New York and Los Angeles local newscasts. After watching the 24 finale tonight (wow) I saw a story about how New Yorkers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=296\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expository","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}