{"id":965,"date":"2013-09-12T16:33:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T20:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/?p=965"},"modified":"2013-09-12T16:33:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T20:33:13","slug":"texas-am-license-plate-sells-for-115k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/2013\/09\/12\/texas-am-license-plate-sells-for-115k\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M license plate sells for 115k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-966\" alt=\"12thmanplate\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/09\/12thmanplate.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/09\/12thmanplate.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/09\/12thmanplate-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Texas license plate reading &#8220;12THMAN&#8221; sold for $115,000 on Thursday in an online auction.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the plates was Tony Buzbee, an attorney from Houston. Buzbee will receive the plates during the second quarter of Saturday&#8217;s football game versus Alabama. He then plans to give them to a war veteran who graduated from Texas A&amp;M.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not saying who it is yet, but I see him as a 12th Man to our country,&#8221; said Buzbee, who said he was a former officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. &#8220;He did a lot more than pay a hundred thousand dollars for a license plate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A plate with &#8220;12THMAN&#8221; had never been available in Texas before because only six letters were allowed on personalized plates until 2011. The company that conducted the auction, MyPlates.com, sells the street-legal vanity plates and is licensed by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas license plate reading &#8220;12THMAN&#8221; sold for $115,000 on Thursday in an online auction. The winner of the plates was Tony Buzbee, an attorney from Houston. Buzbee will receive the plates during the second quarter of Saturday&#8217;s football game versus Alabama. He then plans to give them to a war veteran who graduated from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaafb-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}