{"id":518,"date":"2006-09-21T13:45:13","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T18:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=518"},"modified":"2006-09-21T13:45:13","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T18:45:13","slug":"shock-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2006\/09\/21\/shock-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leah and I have been somewhat dismayed recently to run into so many parents who have little girls named Ava.\u00c2\u00a0 Leah even met someone the other day who had an Ava Grace.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s like these people were thinking the exact same thing we were three years ago, which went something like, &#8220;Ava&#8217;s a nice name.\u00c2\u00a0 Sounds classic, pretty.\u00c2\u00a0 And you don&#8217;t see it around much.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>But the real kicker came this week, the day before my birthday, when an e-mail arrived from my uncle (dad&#8217;s brother).\u00c2\u00a0 We haven&#8217;t been very good at all about keeping in touch with that side of the family, and now we come to realize the cost of that neglect.\u00c2\u00a0 Turns out my cousin recently had a daughter he named Ava.\u00c2\u00a0 So now not only is there another Ava in the world, there&#8217;s another Ava with the same (fairly rare in the U.S.) last name.\u00c2\u00a0 I wonder if they&#8217;ll ever meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leah and I have been somewhat dismayed recently to run into so many parents who have little girls named Ava.\u00c2\u00a0 Leah even met someone the other day who had an Ava Grace.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s like these people were thinking the exact same thing we were three years ago, which went something like, &#8220;Ava&#8217;s a nice name.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ava"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-8m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}