{"id":126207,"date":"2015-11-12T17:23:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T23:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=126207"},"modified":"2015-11-12T17:25:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T23:25:11","slug":"i-didnt-like-my-sons-name-so-i-changed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=126207","title":{"rendered":"I Didn\u2019t Like My Son\u2019s Name. So I Changed It."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/family\/2015\/05\/baby_name_regret_i_couldn_t_live_with_it_so_i_changed_my_son_s_name.single.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not too long ago, shortly before our son turned 18 months old, an important document arrived in the mail. It was a revised birth certificate, reflecting our son\u2019s new first name\u2014Lev.<\/p>\n<p>When Lev was born, we named him Liev\u2014a name that autocorrect doesn\u2019t think exists. But over the first five weeks of his life, my husband Dan and I realized we\u2019d gotten his name wrong, and now we were issuing a very public correction over a single letter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Denizens of the Crust cope with a First World Problem.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We hadn\u2019t taken the naming process lightly. The artisanal baby name trend has prompted a sort of arms race for obscurity. Like many people, we wanted a name that was at once classic and unusual, so I went all Nate Silver on the stats, consulting the demographic trends state by state, just as I had with my daughter four years before. (Back then, trying to see around corners, I nixed one contender because it was trending in Maine, which seemed like a bellwether state.) But we couldn\u2019t come up with a name that fit our son the way the name Olive fit our daughter\u2014enveloping her right away when she was born, like a soft sweater.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reported in <em>Slate<\/em>, naturally.<\/p>\n<p>If they were black, of course, they could have named him D&#8217;Volve or Peeair\u00a0 and just be done with it. But they&#8217;re Persons of Pallor, so the dilemma was crippling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. Not too long ago, shortly before our son turned 18 months old, an important document arrived in the mail. It was a revised birth certificate, reflecting our son\u2019s new first name\u2014Lev. When Lev was born, we named him Liev\u2014a name that autocorrect doesn\u2019t think exists. But over the first five weeks of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-you-cant-make-this-stuff-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126210,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126207\/revisions\/126210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}