{"id":1702,"date":"2009-04-15T17:27:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T17:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2009-04-15T17:27:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T17:27:34","slug":"my_npr_name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/15\/my_npr_name\/","title":{"rendered":"My NPR Name"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you listen much to National Public Radio<\/a>, one of the things you notice is how the names of all the hosts don’t sound much like, say, your<\/i> name. There’s a lot of ethnic diversity in NPR’s ranks, for one thing — on any given broadcast, you’re likely to hear the voices of Lakshmi Singh, Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, or Sylvia Poggioli, for example — but even the more “regular” names just have a certain ring to them: Neal Conan (any name from the Hyborian Age<\/a> is guaranteed cool, right?), Jason Beaubien, Salt Lake’s own Howard Berkes, Noah Adams, Steve Inskeep… these simply aren’t names you’re likely to encounter in the real world. I’ve long lusted after a cool name, the sort of name that invites respect and conjures images of exotic lands, daring deeds, and arcane knowledge. An NPR name.<\/i><\/p>\n

Now, thanks to the link<\/a> my buddy MikeG sent me this afternoon, I can have such a moniker. The formula is surprisingly simple:<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how it works: You take your middle initial and insert it somewhere into your first name. Then you add on the smallest foreign town you\u2019ve ever visited.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And just like that my name becomes — are you ready? — Regjinald St. Goar.<\/p>\n

Regjinald St. Goar, named for a delightful little village on the Rhine River in Germany. I like it! So what’s yours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you listen much to National Public Radio, one of the things you notice is how the names of all the hosts don’t sound much like, say, your name. There’s a lot of ethnic diversity in NPR’s ranks, for one thing — on any given broadcast, you’re likely to hear the voices of Lakshmi Singh, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","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=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}