{"id":414,"date":"2012-02-20T07:03:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T07:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jerrybreanna.com\/jack\/?p=414"},"modified":"2012-03-09T22:21:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T22:21:18","slug":"a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerrybreanna.com\/jack\/2012\/02\/20\/a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"a name"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Breanna kept coming up with lists of names, and I kept stalling. I thought we still had a lot of time.<\/p>\n

The kids also had a lot of great ideas, their favorite being “Rift,” after the Great Rift Valley that cuts through Kenya.<\/p>\n

Eventually, we narrowed down the list to John. The kids liked the fact that his nickname could be Jack, and I liked the fact that he would have the same name as my grandfather I never met: John “Jack” Walker.<\/p>\n

We liked Harrison as a middle name (the middle name of my other grandfather), and to avoid it sounding the like the first line of limerick, we thought we could throw in Rift as a second middle name.<\/p>\n

Breanna wanted to honor her dad and grandfather, both named Daniel, and thought we could replace Harrison with Daniel. I thought it might confuse people in our missionary circles to have a boy named Jack Daniel.<\/p>\n

So the debate simmered until we reached the hospital in the US. As Breanna prepared for her C-section, I said “What about John Harrison Daniel?” I knew Daniel needed to be in there and unfortunately Rift would have to go.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Breanna kept coming up with lists of names, and I kept stalling. I thought we still had a lot of time. The kids also had a lot of great ideas, their favorite being “Rift,” after the Great Rift Valley that cuts through Kenya. Eventually, we narrowed down the list to John. The kids liked the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685,"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jerrybreanna.com\/jack\/files\/2012\/03\/IMG_2013.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2i5xU-6G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerrybreanna.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerrybreanna.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerrybreanna.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerrybreanna.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerrybreanna.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jerrybreanna.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/jerrybreanna.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerrybreanna.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerrybreanna.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerrybreanna.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerrybreanna.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}