{"id":745,"date":"2011-03-31T19:32:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T00:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=745"},"modified":"2011-03-31T23:47:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T04:47:48","slug":"jacob-the-enforcer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=745","title":{"rendered":"Jacob the Enforcer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, Jacob asked me if he could go get some tape and scissors. I said, &#8220;OK&#8221;, because every father wants their kid to do something constructive with their lives. (Bad joke, yes.)<\/p>\n<p>Jacob then hung a sign on his door: &#8220;please don&#8217;t come in here&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>After a while, he asked me how to spell quiet. I told him, and he went back into his room.<\/p>\n<p>Later, he reappears and thanks me for my help with his bus project. &#8220;Bus project?&#8221; I ask.<br \/>\n&#8220;If we don&#8217;t give Mr. Donovan (the bus driver) at least one day of quiet, he&#8217;s going to talk to all of our parents.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;So what are you doing about it?&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/images\/signs_sm.JPG\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Quoth the prophet: &#8220;This sign will be very helpful, and I am making several more.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, Jacob asked me if he could go get some tape and scissors. I said, &#8220;OK&#8221;, because every father wants their kid to do something constructive with their lives. (Bad joke, yes.) Jacob then hung a sign on his door: &#8220;please don&#8217;t come in here&#8221;. After a while, he asked me how to spell &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=745\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jacob the Enforcer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}