{"id":144,"date":"2021-11-14T11:09:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T11:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/?p=144"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:19:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:19:31","slug":"dzigner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/dzigner\/","title":{"rendered":"DZIGNER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(A personalized black &amp; yellow California state vanity license plate, customized to read &#8220;DZIGNER&#8221;, on the back of an Audi A5 sedan.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, this one seems pretty obvious. DZIGNER obviously means&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>THE ZIGNER. But instead of &#8220;The&#8221; it&#8217;s &#8220;DA&#8221; like a catchy nickname. HEY BABY, IT&#8217;S DA ZIGNER! (studio audience applause)<\/p>\n<p>Actually, no, we all know that it means&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>DIZZY G NERD. Someone who&#8217;s nerdy about high G-forces, and gets spun around and around so fast all the time to experience them, no wonder they&#8217;re so dizzy all the time! (Should this person be driving???)<\/p>\n<p>Okay okay fine it obviously means&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>D. ZIGNER, the full and formal name of the Ziggy cartoon character. &#8220;Please, Ziggy was just a phase I went through. I prefer my full name these days: Darius Zigner the Third.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Fine, fine. It means DESIGNER. Probably a graphic designer or an interior designer. Take all the fun out of it, why don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(A personalized black &amp; yellow California state vanity license plate, customized to read &#8220;DZIGNER&#8221;, on the back of an Audi A5 sedan.) Well, this one seems pretty obvious. DZIGNER obviously means&#8230; THE ZIGNER. But instead of &#8220;The&#8221; it&#8217;s &#8220;DA&#8221; like a catchy nickname. HEY BABY, IT&#8217;S DA ZIGNER! (studio audience applause) Actually, no, we all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,2],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-license-plates","tag-make-audi","tag-state-ca"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","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=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}