{"id":402,"date":"2007-11-10T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxalien.com\/purplemass\/?p=402"},"modified":"2007-11-10T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T00:30:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s behind a name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthename.com\" target=\"_blank\">behindthename.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Names. Everyone has one, most people have a vague idea what their own means, but few give them much more thought. The study of names is called onomastics, a field which touches on linguistics, history, anthropology, pyschology, sociology, philology and much more.<\/p>\n<p>When people refer to the &#8220;meaning of a name&#8221;, they are most likely referring to the etymology, which is the original literal meaning. This website looks at the etymology and history or all types of given names.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>behindthename.com Names. Everyone has one, most people have a vague idea what their own means, but few give them much more thought. The study of names is called onomastics, a field which touches on linguistics, history, anthropology, pyschology, sociology, philology and much more. When people refer to the &#8220;meaning of a name&#8221;, they are most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}