{"id":11062,"date":"2007-04-16T21:03:20","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T04:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/04\/16\/whats-in-a-name-22.html"},"modified":"2007-04-16T21:03:20","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T04:03:20","slug":"whats_in_a_name_22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/16\/whats_in_a_name_22.html","title":{"rendered":"What’s in a name?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can you identify the middle names of various presidential contenders<\/a>?<\/p>\n

I got 33% — “You are either a lucky guesser or a careful reader of the news. Congratulations.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Actually, what it demonstrates is that most folks have crazy-ass idea for how to name a kid.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can you identify the middle names of various presidential contenders? I got 33% — “You are either a lucky guesser or a careful reader of the news. Congratulations.” Actually, what…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2008","category-parenting","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13548,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/17\/a_new_macaroni_grill_game.html","url_meta":{"origin":11062,"position":0},"title":"A new Macaroni Grill game","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 17-Nov-08 7:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Hangman! 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