{"id":761,"date":"2007-12-22T08:48:43","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T07:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=761"},"modified":"2007-12-22T08:48:43","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T07:48:43","slug":"did-you-know-that-there-was-a-king-roger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=761","title":{"rendered":"Did you know that there was a King Roger?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you will see from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/useofnames.html\">my web site essay<\/a> on naming practices around the world &#8211; which I mentioned in a posting earlier this week &#8211; I am fascinated by names.<br \/>\nMy father was English and my mother was Italian and they named their first child of three &#8211; me &#8211; Roger. I was always very clear that I was called Roger because my father was a pilot in the Royal Air Force (&#8220;Roger, that!&#8221;).<br \/>\nBut recently I came across a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestofsicily.com\/mag\/art124.htm\">King Roger<\/a> who ruled in Sicily in the 12th century. He extended his empire to embrace much of southern Italy including the Kingdom of Naples.<br \/>\nMy mother came from Naples (indeed my parents were married there) and I wonder now whether she was happy with the name because of the echo with a local king. Both my parents are dead, so I can&#8217;t ask them.<br \/>\nIncidentally King Roger II of Sicily was a politically enlightened and religiously tolerant leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you will see from my web site essay on naming practices around the world &#8211; which I mentioned in a posting earlier this week &#8211; I am fascinated by names. My father was English and my mother was Italian and they named their first child of three &#8211; me &#8211; Roger. I was always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","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=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}