{"id":194,"date":"2009-01-21T08:01:21","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T12:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2009\/01\/21\/the-best-middle-name-ever\/"},"modified":"2009-01-21T08:01:21","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T12:01:21","slug":"the-best-middle-name-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"the best middle name. ever."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I typically don&#8217;t repost, Seth Godin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2009\/01\/the-best-middle.html\">post<\/a> was awesome.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>The best middle name ever<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not Warren or Susan or Otis or Samuel or Tricia.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s &#8220;The.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As in Attila The Hun or Alexander The Great or Zorba The Greek.<\/p>\n<p>When your middle name is &#8216;The&#8217;, it means you&#8217;re it. The only one. The one that defines the category. I think that focus is a choice, and that the result of appropriate focus is you earn the middle name.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan&#8217;s Furniture in Waltham was <em>the<\/em> place to go for that sort of thing. Bocce Pizza and the Anchor Bar were <em>the<\/em> places in Buffalo when I was growing up. Google is more appropriately called Google the search engine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seek the.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of course, Winnie the Pooh is the exception that proves the rule.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I typically don&#8217;t repost, Seth Godin&#8217;s post was awesome. &#8220;The best middle name ever It&#8217;s not Warren or Susan or Otis or Samuel or Tricia. It&#8217;s &#8220;The.&#8221; As in Attila The Hun or Alexander The Great or Zorba The Greek. When your middle name is &#8216;The&#8217;, it means you&#8217;re it. The only one. The &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=194\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the best middle name. ever.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,37],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights","category-reprint"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}