{"id":6174,"date":"2012-06-03T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2012\/06\/03\/middle-name-challenge-arlo-roman-_____-wismar\/"},"modified":"2012-06-03T07:42:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T11:42:00","slug":"middle-name-challenge-arlo-roman-_____-wismar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2012\/06\/03\/middle-name-challenge-arlo-roman-_____-wismar\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Name Challenge: Arlo Roman _____ Wismar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tracy writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our son was born at home on May 29th and we named him Arlo. However we are stuck on the middle names. <\/p>\n<p>We have three other children:\u00a0 Isabella Grace, Sophia Pearl, and Soren August Leonard (going both by Soren and Auggie). <\/p>\n<p>We would like to use the middle name of Roman to honor my side of the family. My maiden name is Romano. <\/p>\n<p>Two other family names we have considered are Joseph and Sepp. <\/p>\n<p>We also love the name Theodore and considered it for Arlo&#8217;s first name. <\/p>\n<p>So my question is does Arlo Roman Joseph\/Theodore\/Sepp Wismar work?\u00a0 They all sound off to me. <\/p>\n<p>Any other suggestions for us?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have two favorites: I like Arlo Roman Theodore Wismar best for the pure sound\/flow of it and because you&#8217;d get to use one of your almost-his-name choices&#8212;except that I like Arlo Roman Joseph Wismar best because I like family names and I like the sound\/flow of THAT combination TOO (and it coordinates with the 2-2-2-2 rhythm of your first son&#8217;s name). Arlo Roman Sepp Wismar is fine, but I like the other two better.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s have a poll over to the right to see what everyone else thinks! [Poll closed; see results below.]<\/p>\n<p><b>Poll results for &#8220;Which is your favorite combination?&#8221;<\/b> (297 votes total):<\/p>\n<p>Arlo Roman Theodore Wismar &#8211; 134 votes (45%)<br \/>Arlo Roman Joseph Wismar &#8211; 125 votes (42%)<br \/>Arlo Roman Sepp Wismar &#8211; 25 votes (8%)<br \/>I can&#8217;t decide &#8211; 13 votes (4%)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracy writes: Our son was born at home on May 29th and we named him Arlo. However we are stuck on the middle names. We have three other children:\u00a0 Isabella Grace, Sophia Pearl, and Soren August Leonard (going both by Soren and Auggie). We would like to use the middle name of Roman to honor [&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-6174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1BA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6174","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=6174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}