{"id":473,"date":"2008-03-16T20:39:12","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T20:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/?p=473"},"modified":"2008-03-16T20:39:12","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T20:39:12","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"what&#8217;s in a name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, we registered our little boy with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akc.org\/\">AKC<\/a>.  Incidentally, we actually have full registration, but I don&#8217;t think that we&#8217;ll be taking advantage of all of that.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this, we get the option to name the dog.  Obviously, you know the name that we&#8217;re calling him, but we wanted to give him a full name.  We didn&#8217;t have the right to use the breeder&#8217;s kennel name in his name, but that&#8217;s OK because we really weren&#8217;t planning on giving him a &#8220;kennel name&#8221; anyway.<\/p>\n<p>All right, so what&#8217;s his name, you ask?<\/p>\n<p>London Cartwright German.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1122productions.com\/brandon\/archives\/001870.html\">previous entry<\/a>, London is named after Jack London, one of my favorite authors.  Initially, I wanted to have his second name be one of London&#8217;s dog names.  But after looking around, all we could find were Buck (from Call of the Wild), White Fang, and several Inuit and other native names that I didn&#8217;t really like well with London.  So I finally decided to look up Labrador itself, and found the town of Cartwright.  It&#8217;s the sixth-largest town in the province of Labrador, and I liked the way it sounded against London.  So Cartwright it was!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, we registered our little boy with the AKC. Incidentally, we actually have full registration, but I don&#8217;t think that we&#8217;ll be taking advantage of all of that. As part of this, we get the option to name the dog. Obviously, you know the name that we&#8217;re calling him, but we wanted to give him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}