{"id":12883,"date":"2008-12-20T16:37:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T16:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/20\/whats-in-a-name\/"},"modified":"2008-12-20T16:37:43","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T16:37:43","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/20\/whats-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Gilleland&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/crappy-names.html\"><font color=\"#810081\">erudite disquisition<\/font><\/a> on crappy names (craptronyms?) put me in mind of a chess opponent I once faced in a Las Vegas tournament. The fellow, a German, rejoiced under the name of David Assman. It would really have been a hoot had the tournament&#39;s venue been Fucking, Austria, near Salzburg. (If a major tournament can be held at Lone Pine, little more than a wide spot on old U.S. 395, why not there?) Yes, <em>muchachos<\/em>, there <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fucking.at\/fucking\/Ort1.htm\"><font color=\"#810081\">really is<\/font><\/a> such a place. The name is pronounced &#39;fooking.&#39; Although I lived as a young man in Salzburg for six months, I never got to Fucking. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Gilleland&#39;s erudite disquisition on crappy names (craptronyms?) put me in mind of a chess opponent I once faced in a Las Vegas tournament. The fellow, a German, rejoiced under the name of David Assman. It would really have been a hoot had the tournament&#39;s venue been Fucking, Austria, near Salzburg. (If a major tournament &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/20\/whats-in-a-name\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#8217;s in a Name?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}