{"id":4047,"date":"2009-11-07T03:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4047"},"modified":"2009-11-07T03:00:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T08:00:47","slug":"four-er-flat-hinge-y-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4047","title":{"rendered":"Four-er Flat Hinge-y Bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/archives\/opinions\/a_common_nomenclature_for_lego_families.php\">A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thousands of different Lego exist, yet when your seven-year-old asks for \u201ca clippy bit,\u201d you know exactly what to hand him. GILES TURNBULL surveys a caucus of children and determines a common nomenclature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Back when I was a youngster, many of these pieces did not exist in our LEGO\u2122 collection.  (Can I have my curmudgeon certificate now?)  Mainly it was the single- and double-wide pieces, of standard thickness and the thin plate pieces, and 4&#215;4 roof pieces:  angled, and interior and exterior corners.  Not much more than that.  I think I noticed the explosion of newer pieces with the introduction of the spaceship sets my brother got:  hinged and rotating pieces, non-rectangular plates and real windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families Thousands of different Lego exist, yet when your seven-year-old asks for \u201ca clippy bit,\u201d you know exactly what to hand him. GILES TURNBULL surveys a caucus of children and determines a common nomenclature. Back &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4047\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}