{"id":128670,"date":"2015-11-10T12:15:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T19:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/10\/on-the-naming-of-names-and-memory-constraints-thereto.html"},"modified":"2015-11-10T15:28:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T22:28:17","slug":"on-the-naming-of-names-and-memory-constraints-thereto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/10\/on-the-naming-of-names-and-memory-constraints-thereto.html","title":{"rendered":"On the Naming of Names (and memory constraints thereto)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know names. I know faces. I just have a hell of a time connecting them.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Jim McCloskey<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is me. Pronouns are my friend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/104080408848055649928\/albums\/6215583239531323441\/6215583243623207234'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-xTmE2KukAaw\/VkIwB0wIEUI\/AAAAAAABMX0\/-HI9UvP_fUo\/names.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/bsxPeXFpR7o'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know names. I know faces. I just have a hell of a time connecting them. Originally shared by +Jim McCloskey: This is me. Pronouns are my friend. \u00a0 View on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128671,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/names.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1304,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/29\/whats_in_a_name.html","url_meta":{"origin":128670,"position":0},"title":"What&#8217;s in a name? 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