{"id":6146,"date":"2012-07-07T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2012\/07\/07\/how-do-you-pronounce-lucia\/"},"modified":"2012-07-07T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T11:30:00","slug":"how-do-you-pronounce-lucia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2012\/07\/07\/how-do-you-pronounce-lucia\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Pronounce Lucia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M. writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi here, Swistle! I love your blogs and i have a baby name question: How  would you pronounce &#8220;Lucia&#8221;? Just first instinct, without thought, as  if you were a teacher calling roll on the first day of school. We are  strongly considering it as a name for a baby girl, but I only like one  pronunciation and I fear that everyone else assumes the other. Thanks  for your opinion!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lucia is a name that immediately registers two pronunciations with me: if I were a teacher reading out the class list, I would say, &#8220;Loo-SEE-ah, Loo-CHEE-ah&#8230;?&#8221; I know it can also be pronounced LOO-sha, but that one comes to my mind as a distant third. <\/p>\n<p>What pronunciation does everyone else think of first?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M. writes: Hi here, Swistle! I love your blogs and i have a baby name question: How would you pronounce &#8220;Lucia&#8221;? Just first instinct, without thought, as if you were a teacher calling roll on the first day of school. We are strongly considering it as a name for a baby girl, but I only [&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-6146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1B8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146","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=6146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}