{"id":1305,"date":"2008-02-15T15:15:06","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T15:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2008-02-15T15:15:06","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T15:15:06","slug":"how_do_you_pronounce_gaiman_an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/15\/how_do_you_pronounce_gaiman_an\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Pronounce “Gaiman” Anyhow?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s kind of an interesting little page<\/a>, whereupon you can listen to “brief recordings of authors and illustrators saying their names.” I must confess that I don’t recognize most of the names on the list, and also it seems that some of the names are pretty self-explanatory — really, who can’t figure out how to pronounce “Ann M. Martin<\/a>“? — but I like the idea here. It would be especially useful in science fiction circles, where many authors seem to flaunt esoteric and\/or eccentric noms de plume<\/i>.
\n(Manys the time I’ve encountered some doughy geek-boy in a Doctor Who<\/i> t-shirt — the sort who claim to despise the original Star Trek<\/i> but secretly covet Captain Kirk’s skill with the ladies, green-skinned and otherwise — who defiantly insists<\/i> that Author X says his or her name this way<\/i>, and anyone who would dare to pronounce it differently is obviously a complete ignoramus. It’s a sci-fi thing, I guess, that unique combination of obstinate arrogance and screaming insecurity.)
\nIn any event, the web site did help me clear up one nagging question for me: Neil Gaiman<\/a>, author of the amazing Sandman comics<\/a> among other things, says his last name<\/a> “GAY-mun,” not “GUY-mun.” Good to know…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s kind of an interesting little page, whereupon you can listen to “brief recordings of authors and illustrators saying their names.” I must confess that I don’t recognize most of the names on the list, and also it seems that some of the names are pretty self-explanatory — really, who can’t figure out how to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-bookshelf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}