{"id":636,"date":"2005-08-31T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nolanpro.com\/wordpress\/?p=295"},"modified":"2005-08-31T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-31T23:53:00","slug":"to-promote-variety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/2005\/08\/31\/to-promote-variety\/","title":{"rendered":"To Promote Variety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s in a name? Not much really it&#8217;s at best a place holder for someone&#8217;s identity.<br \/>When there are too many John Smith&#8217;s at the convention center it certainly makes the need<br \/>of an uncommon middle initial quite useful. Through history the popularity of some names<br \/>have come and gone, I think Jennifer is one for girls these days. I&#8217;m not complaining<br \/>about too many girls being named Jennifer; hell my name Ian is one of the most common<br \/>names in the world being derived from some form of John. Still in an ever complicated<br \/>world it would be nice if a variety of names were encouraged. One of the best ways I can<br \/>think of to do this in a meager way is to <strong>quit naming hurricanes after common perfectly<br \/>usable names<\/strong> for people! Andrew in the 90&#8217;s and now Katrina. Katrina is a perfectly<br \/>good name but now if in the next 18 months or so you named a baby Katrina it would be<br \/>perfectly reasonable to assume that you hate: The South, New Orleans, Cajuns and by proxy<br \/>American Indians, and the French, the Blues, Mardi Gras and by proxy topless &#8220;girls gone<br \/>wild&#8221;, and Catholics, that scene from Easy Rider where they drop acid and freak out in<br \/>the old cemetery, etc. That&#8217;d be mighty hateful. Now Katrina, a perfectly good name,<br \/>is on a moratorium. I wonder why the National Weather Service does not just agree to<br \/><strong>name hurricanes after historically bad people<\/strong> since those names are already no good? A<br \/>Hurricane Hitler or Khan would do just fine and then we wouldn&#8217;t have to take regular<br \/>names off the market and there might be somewhat less confusion at the convention center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s in a name? Not much really it&#8217;s at best a place holder for someone&#8217;s identity.When there are too many John Smith&#8217;s at the convention center it certainly makes the needof an uncommon middle initial quite useful. Through history the popularity of some nameshave come and gone, I think Jennifer is one for girls these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}