{"id":6156,"date":"2011-01-13T06:48:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T12:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/?p=6156"},"modified":"2011-01-13T06:48:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T12:48:38","slug":"the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2011\/the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Boyd car, we have a rule: you cannot sit in &#8220;the Law.&#8221; Please allow me to explain. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1535.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1535\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1535.jpg 225w, https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1535-96x128.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Lucy was a toddler, she often would ask to sit in the space between her and Rosie&#8217;s infant car seats. It was a passionate longing of hers that required much ongoing discussion. We explained to Lucy many times that little girls have to be buckled into car seats. &#8220;You may not sit in the space between the car seats. It&#8217;s the Law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After that, Lucy changed her request: &#8220;May I please sit in the Law?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>p{color:gray}. Photo: But sometimes, the car seat is _just perfect._ <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>The name has stuck, and can be heard often, as in:<\/p>\n<p>bq. &#8220;Oh no, my pen fell into the Law!&#8221; or<br \/>\n&#8220;Would you please put my coat in the Law?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re hoping to work it long enough to get it written up as an alternate definition in the &#8220;OED(Oxford English Dictionary)&#8221;:http:\/\/www.oed.com\/. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Boyd car, we have a rule: you cannot sit in &#8220;the Law.&#8221; Please allow me to explain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6156"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6173,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156\/revisions\/6173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}