{"id":515,"date":"2007-03-19T19:27:54","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T01:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/515"},"modified":"2007-03-19T19:30:28","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T01:30:28","slug":"515","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/515","title":{"rendered":"Names and names"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason and I have decided to not change last names. We decided that a while ago.<\/p>\n

This weekend, I asked Jason’s mom how she chose his name – he was born in September, and August through November spell out J-A-S-O-N. (How Jason’s sister got her name is an even better story, but not mine to tell. Then again, neither is Jason’s. Hm.)<\/p>\n

I was named after Sonja Heine<\/a>, the famous figure skater and actress. My parents decided to change the spelling, thinking that j is a hard letter to make when you’re little. It also kept me from dotting the j with a heart, star, smiley face, etc.<\/p>\n

I like that my parents were so concerned for their new child, getting the hang of spelling and the making of letters. I get asked if I’m Norwegian a lot. (Once, I was asked if I was a squarehead. That query came from an old man.)<\/p>\n

*warning – totally gross, smoopy, mushy stuff up ahead*<\/p>\n

If my name has been spelled like my namesake, I could do this: sonjasonjasonjasonjasonjason<\/p>\n

So I’m considering it – chainging my name, a single letter actually, in reflection of my solidarity to my soulmate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jason and I have decided to not change last names. We decided that a while ago. This weekend, I asked Jason’s mom how she chose his name – he was born in September, and August through November spell out J-A-S-O-N. (How Jason’s sister got her name is an even better story, but not mine to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-did-it-for-schmience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}