{"id":405,"date":"2004-01-17T04:31:52","date_gmt":"2004-01-17T09:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/01\/17\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-19T20:34:04","modified_gmt":"2005-10-20T00:34:04","slug":"random-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/01\/17\/random-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>A couple of random bits that I don&#8217;t believe managed to make it in to my posts from either of the trips.<\/p>\n<p><b>Baby Names<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I have several stories about baby names.<\/p>\n<p>Story the First:<br \/>On our Tuesday at Disney, in the morning, we stood in line with a family who had a little girl of about 3 or 4.  Her name was Alexis.  On the way back to the hotel in the afternoon we were across from a different family with a little girl of about 3 or 4 whose name was Alexis.  And then, when we were coming back from Downtown Disney, a little girl of about 3 or 4, named Alexis, was sitting behind us.<\/p>\n<p>Story the Second:<br \/>Bob&#8217;s cousin and his wife are expecting their first child. If it is a girl, they will name her Madison.<\/p>\n<p>Now, aside from the fact that these are people who are FROM WISCONSIN, why WHY would you name your child the single most popular female name of her generation?<\/p>\n<p>Story the Third:<br \/>This story may shed some light upon the answer to my previous question.  This story is easier to tell if spoken aloud, but I will attempt to get the gist of it down here.  The same cousin and spouse were talking about someone they know, who named their daughter Porsche (they pronounced it &#8216;poor-sha&#8217;) and were boggled that someone would name their child after a car.<\/p>\n<p>The statement passed too quickly for me to question, and I doubt I would have asked the question anyway, but I wonder:  Was the little girl named <i>Portia<\/i>, an actual name, and they simply misunderstood?  Or had they actually seen this written down somewhere?<\/p>\n<p>Because everyone I know pronounces Porsche as &#8216;poorsh&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of random bits that I don&#8217;t believe managed to make it in to my posts from either of the trips. Baby Names I have several stories about baby names. Story the First:On our Tuesday at Disney, in the morning, we stood in line with a family who had a little girl of about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}