{"id":33,"date":"2009-03-08T05:49:29","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T11:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josephclan.com\/tjblog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2009-03-08T10:36:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T16:36:13","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josephclan.com\/tjblog\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In trying to find a suitable title for this blog, I checked out a lot of sites &#8211; including a blog that was started by someone wanting suggestions from readers as to what he\/she should name the blog! I settled on &#8220;Reflections, Ruminations &#038; Recollections&#8221;  because it captured what this blog is about. It is not a snazzy title &#8211; I am leaving it to my kids, and especially Neeta who is probably the most creative one, to come up with something that has more pizzaz!<\/p>\n<p>One does have to be careful when coming up with a name or it could lead to unintended consequences as is only too apparent in these actual domain names. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I am sure the people responsible for some of these kept the names despite the room for misinterpretation!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who Represents<\/strong> provides the name of the agent who represents any celebrity. Go to www.<strong>whore<\/strong>presents.com\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Experts Exchange<\/strong> is where programmers share their expertise at www.expert<strong>sexchange<\/strong>.com\/. They apparently had a fair number of inquiries from people wanting a sex change so they hyphenated the name to read experts-exchange.com!<\/p>\n<p>If you need a pen you would, of course, go to the <strong>Pen Island<\/strong> at www.<strong>penis<\/strong>land.net\/<\/p>\n<p>In this tough economic climate a site like <strong>Therapist Finder<\/strong> has a role to perform. Just go to www.<strong>therapist<\/strong>finder.com\/<\/p>\n<p>How about  www.power<strong>genitalia<\/strong>.com\/ which believe it or not is &#8220;under construction&#8221; based on a google search! It apparently belongs to <strong>Italian Power Generator<\/strong> company.<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of others which I omitted because they were a shade too bawdy especially for a first posting!<\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s in a name? I guess a lot if one is not careful!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In trying to find a suitable title for this blog, I checked out a lot of sites &#8211; including a blog that was started by someone wanting suggestions from readers as to what he\/she should name the blog! I settled on &#8220;Reflections, Ruminations &#038; Recollections&#8221; because it captured what this blog is about. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephclan.com\/tjblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephclan.com\/tjblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephclan.com\/tjblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephclan.com\/tjblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephclan.com\/tjblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephclan.com\/tjblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephclan.com\/tjblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephclan.com\/tjblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephclan.com\/tjblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephclan.com\/tjblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}