{"id":32,"date":"2005-03-31T18:08:44","date_gmt":"2005-03-31T22:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/03\/31\/gregors-sister\/"},"modified":"2005-03-31T18:08:44","modified_gmt":"2005-03-31T22:08:44","slug":"gregors-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/03\/31\/gregors-sister\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregor&#8217;s Sister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a596'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just found out that my estranged father and his mainlander wife had a baby girl a week ago<br \/>\ntoday.&nbsp; He took my advice and named her Greta.*&nbsp; I picked it because<br \/>\nit evokes strength; it&#8217;s not a prissy girl name.&nbsp; I like names that end in &#8220;a,&#8221; and it has<br \/>\nbeen in the back of my mind ever since I read <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0553213695\/104-3495720-5550316\">The Metamorphosis<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><\/span>.&nbsp; <\/span>I<br \/>\nfind it odd that she&#8217;s going to be one of those Chinatown fob babies,<br \/>\nstrapped to her mom with one of those crude scarves, yet she&#8217;ll bear<br \/>\nthe name of a Kafka character due to a whim of her yuppie, 4th<br \/>\ngeneration half-sister.&nbsp; Let&#8217;s hope that she turns out fine and<br \/>\nthat I do not turn into a giant insect.<\/p>\n<p>*My dad rejected my second choice, Ella because he thought it sounded too much like &#8220;Aiya!&#8221; in Spanish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out that my estranged father and his mainlander wife had a baby girl a week ago today.&nbsp; He took my advice and named her Greta.*&nbsp; I picked it because it evokes strength; it&#8217;s not a prissy girl name.&nbsp; I like names that end in &#8220;a,&#8221; and it has been in the back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}