{"id":1443,"date":"2012-03-27T16:01:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T16:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2012-03-27T16:01:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T16:01:54","slug":"what%e2%80%99s-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/27\/what%e2%80%99s-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s in a name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard of a little movie that opened last Friday, a movie that\u2019s based on some bestselling books. Yep, I\u2019m talking about <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hunger_Games\">The Hunger Games<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The books definitely aren\u2019t just for kids, and if you haven\u2019t read them I highly recommend doing so. One thing I didn\u2019t really like though, were the names of the characters. Katniss? Peeta? Coriolanus Snow? I found them distracting.<\/p>\n<p>Having read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/browbeat\/2012\/03\/21\/the_hunger_games_names_explained.html \">this article<\/a> from Slate though, I am more appreciative of the names. Although author Suzanne Collins has never revealed how she came up with the names, I think Slate\u2019s writer gives pretty good explanations. If you haven\u2019t read the books though, don\u2019t look at the article as it contains spoilers!<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you want to find out your own <em>Hunger Games<\/em> name, try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreveryoungadult.com\/2010\/03\/05\/find-your-hunger-games-name\/ \">this site<\/a>. Mine&#8217;s Elleless B. Divelily, what&#8217;s yours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard of a little movie that opened last Friday, a movie that\u2019s based on some bestselling books. Yep, I\u2019m talking about The Hunger Games. The books definitely aren\u2019t just for kids, and if you haven\u2019t read them I highly recommend doing so. One thing I didn\u2019t really like though, were the names [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,44],"tags":[1118,51,815,44],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-words","tag-hunger-games-names","tag-language","tag-names","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/1445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}