{"id":1184,"date":"2012-09-07T23:59:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T23:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/duenos.net\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2012-09-07T23:59:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T23:59:28","slug":"common-first-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/common-first-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Common First Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people have noticed I sometimes give people (or characters) strange (occasionally funny) nicknames. Well here&#8217;s to some justification, straight from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/\">Wolfram Alpha&#8217;s analysis<\/a> of several thousand Facebook friends &#8211; common names:<br \/>\nLaura\/Lauren 26<br \/>\nSarah 19<br \/>\nLiz\/Elizabeth 17<br \/>\nKatie\/Katherine 16<br \/>\nEmily 13<br \/>\nChris\/Christopher 19<br \/>\nMike\/Michael 19<br \/>\nJohn 16<br \/>\nMatt\/Matthew 16<br \/>\nBen\/Benjamin 14<br \/>\nDan\/Daniel 14<br \/>\nDave\/David 13<br \/>\nBrian 13<br \/>\nSo, chances are if you have one of these names I&#8217;m probably going to have to make something more unique up for you. Sorry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people have noticed I sometimes give people (or characters) strange (occasionally funny) nicknames. Well here&#8217;s to some justification, straight from Wolfram Alpha&#8217;s analysis of several thousand Facebook friends &#8211; common names: Laura\/Lauren 26 Sarah 19 Liz\/Elizabeth 17 Katie\/Katherine 16 Emily 13 Chris\/Christopher 19 Mike\/Michael 19 John 16 Matt\/Matthew 16 Ben\/Benjamin 14 Dan\/Daniel 14 Dave\/David [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[98,138,145,186,383,406],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection","tag-data","tag-facebook","tag-first-names","tag-information-science","tag-us-culture","tag-wolfram-alpha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}