{"id":21976,"date":"2017-09-26T09:35:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T08:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21976"},"modified":"2017-09-26T09:35:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T08:35:46","slug":"have-you-ever-heard-of-the-name-chimene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21976","title":{"rendered":"Have you ever heard of the name Chimene?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that I should be blogging about the nuclear threat from North Korea or the rise of the far Right in Germany &#8211; but these subjects are just too depressing. Instead I thought I&#8217;d mention a conversation I had on a recent visit to the cinema.<\/p>\n<p>I was served by a young, black woman and noticed that her name was Chimene. The name sounded vaguely familiar and so I asked her about it. She explained that it was chosen by her mother who loved the character of this name played by Sophia Loren in the film &#8220;El Cid&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I knew exactly what she was talking about because this 1961 movie is a favourite of mine and I&#8217;ve reviewed it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/clfilms.html#El%20Cid\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that I should be blogging about the nuclear threat from North Korea or the rise of the far Right in Germany &#8211; but these subjects are just too depressing. Instead I thought I&#8217;d mention a conversation I had on a recent visit to the cinema. I was served by a young, black woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21976","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=21976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21979,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21976\/revisions\/21979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}