{"id":730,"date":"2001-07-19T10:52:12","date_gmt":"2001-07-19T14:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2001\/07\/nickname-anyone\/"},"modified":"2001-07-19T10:52:12","modified_gmt":"2001-07-19T14:52:12","slug":"nickname-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2001\/07\/nickname-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Nickname, anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Nickname, anyone?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I just realized that I have never had a nickname.  Well, if you don&#8217;t count the mean nicknames (i.e. four-eyes) that little kids give each other in grade school&#8230;  That&#8217;s the problem with having a name like Sarah.  There&#8217;s no way to create a nickname from it.  This, according to my parent&#8217;s, was intentional.  Why they proceeded to name my brothers Daniel and Michael is beyond me if they were trying to avoid nicknames.  Besides, in the grand tradition of my family, I should never go by my real name &#8211; I always thought my great-grandmother&#8217;s name was Virginia.  When she died, I found out her real name was Vincenza.  I didn&#8217;t know my great-aunt&#8217;s name was Angelina until I went to write out my wedding invitations &#8211; even though we&#8217;ve always called her Aunt Amy, people sometimes called her Betty, so I assumed her real name was Elizabeth.  Nope.  And the list goes on. <\/p>\n<p>So, I think I need a nickname &#8211; anyone have any ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nickname, anyone? I just realized that I have never had a nickname. Well, if you don&#8217;t count the mean nicknames (i.e. four-eyes) that little kids give each other in grade school&#8230; That&#8217;s the problem with having a name like Sarah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}