{"id":248,"date":"2005-10-06T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/06\/naming-the-baby\/"},"modified":"2007-05-06T16:46:17","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T00:46:17","slug":"naming-the-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/06\/naming-the-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Naming the baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[this post by Steve]<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nNow that we know we&#8217;ve got a girl, Kate and I are playing the name game with renewed gusto.  Like just about every parent, we want our child to have a unique name that&#8217;s not too weird.  Although &#8220;not too weird&#8221; is pretty relative, and what we really want is a name that&#8217;s easy to spell.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe Seattle PI has an <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/lifestyle\/243455_babynames06.html\">article today about baby names<\/a>.  Here&#8217;s the top 10 list; you can rest assured we won&#8217;t be choosing any of these (the number in parentheses is the number of Washington state births last year):<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n1. Jacob (510)\/1. Emma (480)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n2. Ethan (483)\/2. Emily (461)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n3. Andrew (450)\/3. Olivia (361)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n4. Alexander (410)\/4. Isabella (354)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n5. Joshua (391)\/5. Madison (343)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n6. Daniel (389)\/6. Hannah (342)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n7. Ryan (377)\/7. Grace (309)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n8. Michael (364)\/8. Sophia (285)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n9. Samuel (338)\/9. Abigail (266)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n10. Benjamin (336)\/10. Elizabeth (263)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nOur apologies if your name appears on this list; you&#8217;re just too trendy for our tastes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[this post by Steve] &nbsp; Now that we know we&#8217;ve got a girl, Kate and I are playing the name game with renewed gusto. Like just about every parent, we want our child to have a unique name that&#8217;s not too weird. Although &#8220;not too weird&#8221; is pretty relative, and what we really want is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}