{"id":33,"date":"2003-10-18T03:55:21","date_gmt":"2003-10-18T10:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slumberland.org\/?p=33"},"modified":"2003-10-18T03:55:21","modified_gmt":"2003-10-18T10:55:21","slug":"timberland-have-you-met-infiniti-and-her-sister-loreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/2003\/10\/18\/timberland-have-you-met-infiniti-and-her-sister-loreal\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Timberland, have you met Infiniti and her sister L&#8217;Oreal?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A good working knowledge of the liquor aisle and car lot&#8221; was what psychology professor Cleveland Evans needed to analyze the names of US babies, in search of oddities. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/Stories\/0,1413,36~45~1700484,00.html\" target=\"NewWindow\">He found a certain amount of children given brand names.<\/a> Like DelMonte. Or Celica. Or Courvoisier. Or Skyy &#8212; &#8220;the spelling a tip-off to an apparently inspirational relationship with vodka.&#8221; Though Evans has some concern that parents are &#8220;giving the message that children are possessions,&#8221; he does see the positive side of this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At least they tend to name them things with a positive image &#8230; you don&#8217;t see them naming their child Yugo.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Of course, the Social Security statistics only include names that appeared more than five times. So there could still be four little Yugos out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A good working knowledge of the liquor aisle and car lot&#8221; was what psychology professor Cleveland Evans needed to analyze the names of US babies, in search of oddities. He found a certain amount of children given brand names. Like DelMonte. Or Celica. Or Courvoisier. Or Skyy &#8212; &#8220;the spelling a tip-off to an apparently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3l1DW-x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}