{"id":525,"date":"2007-06-19T22:41:36","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T21:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=525"},"modified":"2007-06-19T22:41:36","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T21:41:36","slug":"a-paucity-of-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=525","title":{"rendered":"A paucity of names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to school in Manchester with a Randal McRandall; I used to work at the Communication Workers Union with a Donald McDonald; the consumer body Postwatch, where I now work part-time, used to be headed by Gregor McGregor; and today I attended a media training session at Postwatch led by a consultant called Nel McNelil<br \/>\nSome parents are just so unoriginal when it comes to naming their child. Others are strangely inventive. I&#8217;ve written an essay on naming practices around the world which you can read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/useofnames.html\">here<\/a>. You might be surprised on how varied these practices are around the globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to school in Manchester with a Randal McRandall; I used to work at the Communication Workers Union with a Donald McDonald; the consumer body Postwatch, where I now work part-time, used to be headed by Gregor McGregor; and today I attended a media training session at Postwatch led by a consultant called Nel [&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-525","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\/525","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=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}