{"id":1114,"date":"2003-04-14T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-14T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2003\/04\/a-rose-by-any-other-name.html"},"modified":"2003-04-14T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-14T22:15:00","slug":"a-rose-by-any-other-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2003\/04\/a-rose-by-any-other-name.html","title":{"rendered":"A Rose by Any Other Name&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;would stink. Really. Try it. Call it cabbage. It just doesn&#8217;t work. Which is why this name thing is so important. Forget the first name. What about the last name? Baby Brown? Baby Medros? Baby Brown Medros? Baby Brown-as-middle-name Medros? Baby Medros-as-middle-name Brown? Baby with other middle name <i>and<\/i> Brown-as-middle-name Medros? You can see the difficulties. I thought about asking you guys, and then realized if I didn&#8217;t care what Adam thought on the situation, why would I care what you think? (Well, in all fairness, I do care a little what Adam thinks&#8211;it&#8217;s just that he really doesn&#8217;t seem to care, which means he really doesn&#8217;t care or this is one of the most cleverly played out reverse psychology tactics I&#8217;ve ever seen.) So tonight, I suggested Brown as a first name. I mean, why not? And he said that would have been fine, if UPS hadn&#8217;t gotten to it first. Now, I know I&#8217;m not the one in b-school, but isn&#8217;t that just more incentive? I mean UPS has already gone through the branding exercise, so our son would just reap the benefits. The company claims loud and clear, <a href=\"http:\/\/pressroom.ups.com\/pressreleases\/archives\/archive\/0,1363,4141,00.html\">Brown and a Better Life<\/a>. They say, <a href=\"http:\/\/louisville.bizjournals.com\/louisville\/stories\/2002\/02\/04\/daily35.html\">&#8220;Brown is more than a color &#8212; it&#8217;s a tangible asset that people associate with all the things that are good&#8230;.&#8221;<\/a> Would you rather have your kid associated with all the things that are bad? I rest my case. Although, that still doesn&#8217;t solve the last name issue (Baby Brown Brown? Baby Brown Medros? Baby Brown Brown-Medros&#8230;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;would stink. Really. Try it. Call it cabbage. It just doesn&#8217;t work. Which is why this name thing is so important. Forget the first name. What about the last name? Baby Brown? Baby Medros? Baby Brown Medros? Baby Brown-as-middle-name Medros? Baby Medros-as-middle-name Brown? Baby with other middle name and Brown-as-middle-name Medros? You can see the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}