{"id":41,"date":"2003-10-28T15:46:27","date_gmt":"2003-10-28T21:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2010-09-07T19:36:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T01:36:42","slug":"thoughts-on-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/20031028\/thoughts-on-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the way back from babysitting The Canadian&#8217;s children we came up with a few ideas on names.<\/p>\n<p>I like multisyllabic names.<\/p>\n<p>The way they tumble out of the month like a stream dashing down the rocks of a creek appeals to my sense of rhythm. Makes you think about the name.<\/p>\n<p>Consider its value.<\/p>\n<p>Heft its weight.<\/p>\n<p>Taste its flavor.<\/p>\n<p>___________<\/p>\n<p>I hope my child is happy and joyful and enthusiastic about life. But I want her to have a name that conveys seriousness and intellgence.<\/p>\n<p>Quite a challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the way back from babysitting The Canadian&#8217;s children we came up with a few ideas on names. I like multisyllabic names. The way they tumble out of the month like a stream dashing down the rocks of a creek appeals to my sense of rhythm. Makes you think about the name. Consider its value. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/20031028\/thoughts-on-names\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thoughts on Names&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-grace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb6Km-F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglasblaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}