{"id":136,"date":"2021-12-04T10:59:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T10:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/?p=136"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:08:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:08:38","slug":"flexdna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/flexdna\/","title":{"rendered":"FLEXDNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(A personalized black &amp; yellow California state vanity license plate, customized to read &#8220;FLEXDNA&#8221;, on the back of a Jeep Wrangler.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>FLEX DNA gives me the idea of like&#8230; someone who is genetically superior, but like, in a\u00a0<em>fun<\/em> way, and\u00a0<em>knows<\/em> it. Not in like some weird evil eugenics way, this doesn&#8217;t give me &#8220;crazy weirdo&#8221; vibes, this gives me fun vibes. MY DNA IS A FLEX BABY.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny Bravo type shit. &#8220;Hey mamma, whaddya say we make like DNA and get all&#8230; twisted up? Huah! Heah!&#8221; (that&#8217;s the sound Johnny Bravo makes when he flexes, of course.)<\/p>\n<p>This could also mean that these folks are just born to show off. Flexing (slang for a sort of bragging) is simply encoded in their genes. (Hence the Jeep? Matches the identity, I&#8217;d say.)<\/p>\n<p>Then again, maybe they&#8217;re a chemist, a geneticist, some sort of lab researcher, and they discovered something cool about it that they flex on.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe they&#8217;re just a buff geneticist! &#8220;DAMN, I CRUSHED ANOTHER ERLENMEYER FLASK IN MY BEEFY FINGERS.&#8221; Probably happens all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(A personalized black &amp; yellow California state vanity license plate, customized to read &#8220;FLEXDNA&#8221;, on the back of a Jeep Wrangler.) FLEX DNA gives me the idea of like&#8230; someone who is genetically superior, but like, in a\u00a0fun way, and\u00a0knows it. Not in like some weird evil eugenics way, this doesn&#8217;t give me &#8220;crazy weirdo&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,2],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-license-plates","tag-make-jeep","tag-state-ca"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","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=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}