{"id":6961,"date":"2009-08-25T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2009\/08\/25\/baby-name-to-consider-abelson\/"},"modified":"2014-07-31T10:46:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T14:46:12","slug":"baby-name-to-consider-abelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2009\/08\/25\/baby-name-to-consider-abelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Name to Consider: Abelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time for another &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2009\/06\/30\/baby-name-to-consider-schroeder\/\">Name I Feel Like I Made Up, But Likely Didn&#8217;t<\/a>: Abelson. It&#8217;s not even in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0312352204\/ref=nosim\/?tag=88K18-20\">book of 50,001 baby names<\/a>, which stretches (&#8220;Must! reach! 50,000! mark!&#8221;) to include such names as Eleven and Eccentricity and Ecru.<\/p>\n<p>The name Abel is so great: strong but gentle, and a pleasing word association with &#8220;able&#8221;. Plus, he was the nice brother of the Cain and Abel scandal. Unfortunately, the Cain-&#8216;n&#8217;-Abel thing is kind of hard to beat, nice brother or not&#8212;especially for someone who has a brother. The &#8220;Am I my brother&#8217;s keeper?&#8221; joke is likely to get old.<\/p>\n<p>How about THIS, though: Abelson. It&#8217;s got the Abel part, plus it&#8217;s a surname name. It has the sound of a name of old standing (even though I&#8217;m pretty sure it isn&#8217;t), rather than of a modern invented name. It&#8217;s strongly boyish, but without sounding overly tough-guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for another &#8220;Name I Feel Like I Made Up, But Likely Didn&#8217;t: Abelson. It&#8217;s not even in my book of 50,001 baby names, which stretches (&#8220;Must! reach! 50,000! mark!&#8221;) to include such names as Eleven and Eccentricity and Ecru. The name Abel is so great: strong but gentle, and a pleasing word association with [&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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-to-consider"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Oh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961","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=6961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10279,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961\/revisions\/10279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}