{"id":424,"date":"2005-08-07T22:43:22","date_gmt":"2005-08-07T20:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.tjerngren.net\/wp\/?p=424"},"modified":"2005-08-07T22:43:22","modified_gmt":"2005-08-07T20:43:22","slug":"the-name-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"The Name Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of you may remember that we had planned, if the baby turned out to be a girl, to name her Sarah Augusta and call her Sadie. It’s the same name we had planned to give Tage if he had been a girl and I felt very committed to it. A couple of weeks before the baby came, though, I started to rethink it. I had already changed my mind about a boy name, and Sadie had started to feel a little stale next to the new pick. I started running through my list of girl choices again–all names that Olof had previously vetoed, by the way–as much out of boredom as anything else, I think. When we started talking names again, we had already passed the point by which I had expected the baby to have come, and the few hours we spent in negotiations provided a welcome distraction from the waiting, waiting, waiting. <\/p>\n

We decided, after a day or so, to go with Petra Isadora if we had a daughter and, as you already know, we stuck with that choice. Interestingly enough, however, the day she finally made her appearance was “Sarah day” on the Swedish name-day calendar. Funny, that.<\/p>\n

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Some of you may remember that we had planned, if the baby turned out to be a girl, to name her Sarah Augusta and call her Sadie. It’s the same name we had planned to give Tage if he had been a girl and I felt very committed to it. A couple of weeks before… Read More The Name Game<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}