{"id":186,"date":"2006-11-04T11:23:57","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T10:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=186"},"modified":"2006-11-04T11:23:57","modified_gmt":"2006-11-04T10:23:57","slug":"keeping-up-with-the-joneses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Keeping up with the Joneses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The family name Jones means &#8216;son of John&#8217; and it is especially common in Wales (13.5% of the population) because of the Welsh habit of naming themselves after their father. Indeed this week <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/wales\/south_east\/6112714.stm\">a new world record<\/a> was established for a gathering of the most people with the same surname when 1,224 people called Jones gathered at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff.<br \/>\nIf &#8211; like me &#8211; you&#8217;re interested in the different use of names, you might like to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/useofnames.html\">my web essay<\/a> on naming practices around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family name Jones means &#8216;son of John&#8217; and it is especially common in Wales (13.5% of the population) because of the Welsh habit of naming themselves after their father. Indeed this week a new world record was established for a gathering of the most people with the same surname when 1,224 people called Jones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}