{"id":2142,"date":"2020-02-01T00:29:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T08:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/whats-in-a-name-everything\/"},"modified":"2020-02-01T00:29:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T08:29:41","slug":"whats-in-a-name-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/whats-in-a-name-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s in a name? Everything."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u202aBonnie & Clyde. They put her name first. It has a better ring to it. And because they were ahead of their time. \u202c<\/p>\n

\u202aRingling Brothers Barnum & Bailey. The position of these names was chosen in a street brawl.\u202c A goof off.<\/p>\n

\u202aAbbott and Costello. Abbott had a gun. He was a straight man. The heavy.\u202c The ladies’ man. And he couldn’t take the pressure. In the end, he would become irate when you shouted his own name at him to get his attention. Somehow he made it work. For him.\ufffc<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u202aBonnie & Clyde. They put her name first. It has a better ring to it. And because they were ahead of their time. \u202c \u202aRingling Brothers Barnum & Bailey. The position of these names was chosen in a street brawl.\u202c A goof off. \u202aAbbott and Costello. Abbott had a gun. He was a straight man. The heavy.\u202c The ladies’ man. And he couldn’t take the pressure. In the end, he would become irate when you shouted his own name at him to get his attention. Somehow he made it work. For him.\ufffc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[184,43,22,188,127,121,147,167,152,64],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-absurdist","tag-classic","tag-comedian","tag-fable","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-humor","tag-humour","tag-satire","tag-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u13S-yy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2217,"url":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/abbott-v-costello\/","url_meta":{"origin":2142,"position":0},"title":"Abbott v Costello","author":"David Raffin","date":"March 20, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Abbott was a straight man. 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