{"id":295,"date":"2005-12-02T10:35:38","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T08:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/?p=295"},"modified":"2005-12-02T10:35:38","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T08:35:38","slug":"renaming-our-h-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"Renaming our H-boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/greygriffin\/65602980\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/31\/65602980_76d1d63fcd_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/greygriffin\/65602980\/\">Mimosa<\/a> <br \/>Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/greygriffin\/\">Greygriffin<\/a>.<\/span><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s traditionally bad luck to change a boat&#8217;s name; on the other hand, neither Eve nor I really like the name &#8216;Mimosa&#8217;, and as you can see it looks like the name&#8217;s letters (and grey dolphins!) were cut out by a previous owner&#8217;s child.<\/p>\n<p>I think it would be nice to name our boat after one of the ancient Greek sea <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nymph\">nymphs<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oceanid\">Oceanids<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nereids\">Nereids<\/a>. Most of the names are pretty wierd by today&#8217;s tastes; two which seem suitable are Electra and Doris (Doris was a popular name in England around the start of the 20th century and sounds sort of old-fashioned; I had a great-aunt called Doris).<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mimosa Originally uploaded by Greygriffin. It&#8217;s traditionally bad luck to change a boat&#8217;s name; on the other hand, neither Eve nor I really like the name &#8216;Mimosa&#8217;, and as you can see it looks like the name&#8217;s letters (and grey dolphins!) were cut out by a previous owner&#8217;s child. I think it would be nice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}