{"id":12360,"date":"2016-10-14T08:53:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T12:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=12360"},"modified":"2016-10-14T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T12:55:13","slug":"baby-naming-issue-will-sisters-named-lena-and-ola-remind-people-of-the-ole-and-lena-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2016\/10\/14\/baby-naming-issue-will-sisters-named-lena-and-ola-remind-people-of-the-ole-and-lena-jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Naming Issue: Will Sisters Named Lena and Ola Remind People of the Ole and Lena Jokes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I have a 1.5 yr old named Lena and am expecting a second girl in Dec, we really like the name Ola for our second daughter, but I&#8217;m worried Ola is too close to Ole, which would create endless Ole and Lena jokes. If you aren&#8217;t familiar with Ole and Lena jokes they are super common in MN, where we live, in a very Scandinavian area. What do you think? Too close to a joke, or cute enough to be ok?<br \/>\nThank you!<\/p>\n<p>Erin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My vote is yes, too close. There will be a lot of people who won&#8217;t have heard of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ole_and_Lena\">Ole and Lena<\/a>, but you live right where everyone HAS heard of them. Worse, it&#8217;s not a particularly flattering category of humor: it reminds me of blonde jokes.<\/p>\n<p>A second issue, but perhaps this is because I have three children in the house who have taken or are taking Spanish, is that Ola sounds just like Hola. &#8220;Hello&#8221; isn&#8217;t a negative word, but it&#8217;s an unusual one for a name, and I would get weary of &#8220;Hola, Ola!&#8221; jokes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a 1.5 yr old named Lena and am expecting a second girl in Dec, we really like the name Ola for our second daughter, but I&#8217;m worried Ola is too close to Ole, which would create endless Ole and Lena jokes. If you aren&#8217;t familiar with Ole and Lena jokes they are super [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3dm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12360"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12363,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12360\/revisions\/12363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}