{"id":42,"date":"2023-06-09T21:11:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T21:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/?p=42"},"modified":"2026-01-18T21:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:14:08","slug":"%e2%99%a5lyubov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/%e2%99%a5lyubov\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2665LYUBOV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(A personalized white &amp; blue flowery California state vanity license plate, customized to read &#8220;\u2665LYUBOV&#8221;, on the back of a Toyota Sienna.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My first instinct was that [HEART] LYUBOV stood for something like &#8220;Love You Both&#8221;&#8211;BOV a sort of abbreviation for Both.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously the heart was a clue to that. I always love it when people include symbols like the \u2665 on their plates. Why not!!<\/p>\n<p>However, in my research I found that Lyubov is actually a Russian word meaning &#8220;love&#8221; or &#8220;she loves,&#8221; and in fact is often used as a girl&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>So this car is probably talking about someone specific, and really amping up the love connection of the name itself.<\/p>\n<p>Or, hell, maybe it stands for Love Your Unique Beauty, Offer Value. I doubt it, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(A personalized white &amp; blue flowery California state vanity license plate, customized to read &#8220;\u2665LYUBOV&#8221;, on the back of a Toyota Sienna.) My first instinct was that [HEART] LYUBOV stood for something like &#8220;Love You Both&#8221;&#8211;BOV a sort of abbreviation for Both. Obviously the heart was a clue to that. I always love it when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,2,8],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-license-plates","tag-make-toyota","tag-state-ca","tag-symbol-heart"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanjhulbert.org\/license-plates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}