{"id":993,"date":"2005-07-24T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/24\/nicknames\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:25:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:25:22","slug":"nicknames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/24\/nicknames\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicknames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was whining (as I am wont to do all too often).  I explained to Rudy that I wished my parents had named me something from which one could derive a nickname.  Samanthas can be Sam.  Nicoles can be Nick.  Rudy pointed out that the name &#8220;Les&#8221; can be derived from my name.  And, he pointed out, &#8220;Les is more.&#8221;  AND it has fewer letters than &#8220;clst&#8221; and so wins for being a TLA (sorta) too.  So, feel free to call me Les.  (Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mwscomp.com\/movies\/brian\/brian-07.htm\">Loretta<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Maybe, if I had been born male, I would sit around wondering about how I&#8217;m really not sporty and I detest competition and I make &#8220;eep&#8221;ing noises on occasion and I would think perhaps some odd mistake had been made.<br \/>\nTag: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Celesteh\" rel=\"tag\">Celesteh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was whining (as I am wont to do all too often). I explained to Rudy that I wished my parents had named me something from which one could derive a nickname. Samanthas can be Sam. Nicoles can be Nick. Rudy pointed out that the name &#8220;Les&#8221; can be derived from my name. And, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/24\/nicknames\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nicknames<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3241,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/3241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}