{"id":5908,"date":"2011-10-06T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2011\/10\/06\/may-i-direct-your-attention\/"},"modified":"2011-10-06T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T13:30:00","slug":"may-i-direct-your-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2011\/10\/06\/may-i-direct-your-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"May I Direct Your Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a post up today on Nameberry. The book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B000OTKLUG\/ref=nosim\/?tag=88K18-20\">Beyond Jennifer &#038; Jason<\/a> (since updated as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0312940955\/ref=nosim\/?tag=88K18-20\">Beyond Jennifer &#038; Jason, Madison &#038; Montana<\/a> and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0312539150\/ref=nosim\/?tag=88K18-20\">Beyond Ava &#038; Aiden<\/a>) took the head right off my shoulders in the 1990s when I was still naming cats but was looking forward to naming babies. All I&#8217;d ever seen before then were baby name dictionaries: lists of names, sometimes with meanings and\/or origins and\/or pronunciations. But this new book had CATEGORIES. It discussed the way names come across to other people, and which other names came across that same way if that&#8217;s what you were looking for. It was the first time I realized that names get popular in packs, that it&#8217;s possible to see those packs coming.<\/p>\n<p>I still have my old copy with pencil circlings: Elizabeth, Julia, Louise, Simon, Kyle, Molly, Eliza, Rosemary, Milo, Gus, Leo, Eve, Henry. Names I might not have noticed in the old 1970 baby name dictionary (my mom&#8217;s, with HER pencil circlings!) I&#8217;d used to name my dolls.<\/p>\n<p>Now the authors run the huge baby name site <a href=\"http:\/\/nameberry.com\/\">Nameberry<\/a>, and I&#8217;d love it if you clicked through and read my post there: <a href=\"http:\/\/nameberry.com\/blog\/popular-baby-names-the-case-for-the-common-name\">The Case for the Common Name<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a post up today on Nameberry. The book Beyond Jennifer &#038; Jason (since updated as Beyond Jennifer &#038; Jason, Madison &#038; Montana and then Beyond Ava &#038; Aiden) took the head right off my shoulders in the 1990s when I was still naming cats but was looking forward to naming babies. All I&#8217;d [&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-5908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1xi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908","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=5908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}