{"id":48,"date":"2009-04-21T09:45:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T14:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2025-02-27T20:10:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T20:10:05","slug":"raise-your-right-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/2009\/04\/21\/raise-your-right-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Raise your right hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a year ago exactly, when I stood in the auditorium in Santa Fe and raised my right hand and took the oath and became a lawyer in the great state of New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>In New Mexico the court allows for someone to be a &#8220;Movant&#8221; and make a verbal motion to the court to admit a new member.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46 aligncenter\" title=\"iswear\" src=\"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/iswear.jpg\" alt=\"iswear\" width=\"330\" height=\"500\" \/><br \/>\nSo yesterday I made the trip again to Santa Fe, this time standing with my daughter as I made the motion to admit the &#8220;real lawyer&#8221; to the New Mexico Bar.<\/p>\n<p>She raised her right hand, took the oath, we paused for a photo taken by one of my former classmates and then went on down to the Range for breakfast and then on to the airport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It was a great day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2144 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/tandd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/tandd.jpg 450w, https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/tandd-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a year ago exactly, when I stood in the auditorium in Santa Fe and raised my right hand and took the oath and became a lawyer in the great state of New Mexico. In New Mexico the court allows for someone to be a &#8220;Movant&#8221; and make a verbal motion to the court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2145,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}