{"id":6470,"date":"2011-02-13T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2011\/02\/13\/family-trees\/"},"modified":"2011-02-13T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T14:12:00","slug":"family-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2011\/02\/13\/family-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Firegirl was <a href=\"http:\/\/justabunchofsilliness.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/pardon-interruption.html\">assembling her family tree<\/a>, and she discovered she has a great-great aunt named Sunbeam Olive.<\/p>\n<p>This led me to wonder, since so many of us have looked in our family trees for baby-naming inspiration: what fun\/funny names have YOU found?  I have a great-great uncle with the middle name Haddock. I have an actual Egbert in the family, and a Fanny, and a Hubert, and a Wilbur, and a Hulda, and a Jemima&#8212;names that are funny now, though I assume not at all funny at the time.<\/p>\n<p>I have a several-times-great uncle named Justice, and I have other relatives with names such as Hannah, Emma, Eva, Clark, Adeline, Isabel, Polly, Henry&#8212;all names I could say I was using because they were family names, when I&#8217;d actually be using them because they were currently in style. (Unlike, say, &#8220;Haddock.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Firegirl was assembling her family tree, and she discovered she has a great-great aunt named Sunbeam Olive. This led me to wonder, since so many of us have looked in our family trees for baby-naming inspiration: what fun\/funny names have YOU found? I have a great-great uncle with the middle name Haddock. I [&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-6470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Gm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470","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=6470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}