{"id":395,"date":"2003-06-22T14:18:49","date_gmt":"2003-06-22T18:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2003\/06\/22\/the-importance-of-names\/"},"modified":"2003-06-22T14:18:49","modified_gmt":"2003-06-22T18:18:49","slug":"the-importance-of-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2003\/06\/22\/the-importance-of-names\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a124'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ancient <STRONG>chinese wisdom<\/STRONG> holds with the extreme importance of names.&nbsp; Modern propagandists would agree, if with less enthusiasm&#8230;&nbsp;political candidates sometimes rename themselves for this reason.&nbsp;&nbsp; I always have trouble naming images, sites, books; most of the names I have for private items aren&#8217;t words at all &#8212; perhaps I haven&#8217;t the poetry to create the overlapping meanings I want from everyday phrases.&nbsp; In any case, <A href=\"http:\/\/www.literaltech.com\">Dave<\/A> refuses to pronounce <STRONG>Omnipresent Longevity<\/STRONG> and I&#8217;m left contemplating names again.&nbsp; For now.&nbsp; [speaking of which, there&#8217;s an old caption contest that was never resolved&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient chinese wisdom holds with the extreme importance of names.&nbsp; Modern propagandists would agree, if with less enthusiasm&#8230;&nbsp;political candidates sometimes rename themselves for this reason.&nbsp;&nbsp; I always have trouble naming images, sites, books; most of the names I have for private items aren&#8217;t words at all &#8212; perhaps I haven&#8217;t the poetry to create the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chain-gang"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}