{"id":116,"date":"2021-09-26T00:27:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T00:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/?p=116"},"modified":"2026-01-19T00:31:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T00:31:59","slug":"iammean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/iammean\/","title":{"rendered":"IAMMEAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

(A personalized black & yellow California state vanity license plate, customized to read “IAMMEAN”, on the front of a Honda sedan.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Well that’s not very nice.<\/p>\n

This person means business. Or maybe they just mean meanness. “I AM MEAN” – well gosh!<\/p>\n

What a mean thing to put on the front of your Accord or Civic. You certainly do not want to come to accords very civilly!<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s an effective crash deterrent though. Or a theft deterrent! “Oh damn I don’t want to rob that car, that guy’s mean.” Hell, take what you can get on the streets of LA. (Not that we’re anywhere near as bad for break-ins as San Francisco.)<\/p>\n

Maybe it ACTUALLY means that they’re “the mean” – like, the average. “I AM AVERAGE.” Hah! But no, I shouldn’t joke about this. They’ll be mean to me if I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(A personalized black & yellow California state vanity license plate, customized to read “IAMMEAN”, on the front of a Honda sedan.) Well that’s not very nice. This person means business. Or maybe they just mean meanness. “I AM MEAN” – well gosh! What a mean thing to put on the front of your Accord or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,2],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-license-plates","tag-make-honda","tag-state-ca"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}