{"id":207,"date":"2008-06-29T00:47:31","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T07:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/207"},"modified":"2008-06-29T13:44:25","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T20:44:25","slug":"a-new-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/a-new-name\/","title":{"rendered":"A new name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I wasn&#8217;t given one at birth, I&#8217;ve decided to take on a middle name.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I wanted to choose an interesting name, with a cool meaning &#8211; and settled on one that means little; good looking.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently this is becoming a bit of a trend\u00c2\u00a0right now\u00c2\u00a0<a target=\"resource window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/29\/us\/politics\/29hussein.html?hp\"><em>(click to read the article that inspired me)<\/em><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0, and I encourage you to do the same.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll even share my middle name with you&#8230;. we can all be a little good looking&#8230; or was that little, good looking?<\/p>\n<p>So just call me <em class=\"b\">Allison Hussein Hays<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and by sheer coincidence this is the same middle name of <a target=\"resource window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/\">Barack Obama <\/a>&#8211; soon to be the next president of the United States.\u00c2\u00a0 Cool, huh?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Will you join me in taking on his middle name?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I wasn&#8217;t given one at birth, I&#8217;ve decided to take on a middle name.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I wanted to choose an interesting name, with a cool meaning &#8211; and settled on one that means little; good looking.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently this is becoming a bit of a trend\u00c2\u00a0right now\u00c2\u00a0(click to read the article that inspired me)\u00c2\u00a0, and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/a-new-name\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A new name<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-social-issues","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}