{"id":4991,"date":"2011-02-20T13:54:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T12:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4991"},"modified":"2011-10-14T12:44:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T11:44:31","slug":"who-is-dido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4991","title":{"rendered":"Who is Dido?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She is the 39 year old British singer whose original name is Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O&#8217;Malley Armstrong. Dido is not a professional or stage name but one she was given as a child by her family, as explained <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dido_%28singer%29#Early_life\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dido has created three acclaimed albums:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dido_%28singer%29#No_Angel_.281999.E2.80.932002.29\">&#8220;No Angel&#8221; (1999)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dido_%28singer%29#Life_for_Rent_and_Live_8_.282003.E2.80.932005.29\">&#8220;Life for Rent&#8221; (2003)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dido_%28singer%29#Safe_Trip_Home_.282008.29\">&#8220;Safe Trip Home&#8221; (2008)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I really like her music and am playing it now as I work on my PC.<\/p>\n<p>As for names, I&#8217;ve always found them a fascinating insights into lives and cultures and have devoted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/useofnames.html\">a section<\/a> of my web site to examining the different naming practices around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She is the 39 year old British singer whose original name is Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O&#8217;Malley Armstrong. Dido is not a professional or stage name but one she was given as a child by her family, as explained here. Dido has created three acclaimed albums: &#8220;No Angel&#8221; (1999) &#8220;Life for Rent&#8221; (2003) &#8220;Safe Trip [&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-4991","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\/4991","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=4991"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6901,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions\/6901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}