{"id":550,"date":"2017-01-18T22:22:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T09:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/?p=550"},"modified":"2017-01-21T23:02:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T10:02:59","slug":"the-209-50-kebab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"The $209.50 kebab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have, somewhat inadvertently, outdone myself. Once again I had been to Hastings of a lunchtime to get\u00a0something, I forget what, and on the way back to the office I stopped at Cafe Anatolia to pick up a kebab for lunch. The NZ Transport Agency send out reminders when your rego&#8217; needs renewing, but after about 6 months of owning the vehicle I hadn&#8217;t received a reminder and hadn&#8217;t thought to check the sticker on the windscreen. Anyway, caught pants down, rego out by a couple of months. The seller in Auckland clearly hadn&#8217;t filled in the ownership transfer document, so NZTA would have given Hastings council their address. Shortly after they received the fine notice, I received the new ownership document and about a week later the unregistered vehicle fine arrived &#8211; thank you so much&#8230; The local council website indicates that you have to challenge the fine in court. I was technically guilty as charged, but with the extenuating circumstance that I had become complacent and relied on the reminders. Crazy busy as always up to Christmas, so didn&#8217;t look into it further and ended up paying the $200 fine at the last minute to avoid it escalating. Turns out I probably had good chance of getting the fine reversed if I had spent the time to present a reasonable excuse. Anyway, too late now, so the kebab ultimately cost $209.50, which trumps the $158 kebab back in 2009&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have, somewhat inadvertently, outdone myself. Once again I had been to Hastings of a lunchtime to get\u00a0something, I forget what, and on the way back to the office I stopped at Cafe Anatolia to pick up a kebab for lunch. The NZ Transport Agency send out reminders when your rego&#8217; needs renewing, but after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/?p=550\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The $209.50 kebab&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}