{"id":18348,"date":"2013-01-20T18:41:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T10:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=18348"},"modified":"2013-01-20T18:41:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T10:41:07","slug":"tot-naming-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2013\/01\/20\/tot-naming-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Tot Naming &#8211; Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incredibly, it&#8217;s been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/11\/11\/tot-naming-part-i\/\">more than 4 years<\/a> since our blog posts about our choices for our first born child&#8217;s name. We should be knowing the gender of Hannah&#8217;s sibling soon &#8211; probably anytime from a couple more weeks onwards. I&#8217;m hoping it&#8217;ll be a girl again, not just because it&#8217;ll be loads more convenient, but simply because daughters are a lot of fun for daddies. Maybe I&#8217;ll change my mind later when she starts dating, but in the mean time, my first choices for a baby girl&#8217;s name haven&#8217;t changed from when we were deciding for Hannah:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Agnes <\/strong>(Greek) \u2013 pure, virginal<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Esther <\/strong>(Hebrew) \u2013 secret, hidden<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Emma <\/strong>(Hebrew) \u2013 the female version of Emmanuel<\/p>\n<p>Ling always has different perceptions about children names though and which are the &#8216;in&#8217; ones, since she teaches school-going children. She did muse aloud just now though that if our surnames were Ching, the one name we should never choose for a baby girl would be &#8216;Monica&#8217;.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incredibly, it&#8217;s been more than 4 years since our blog posts about our choices for our first born child&#8217;s name. We should be knowing the gender of Hannah&#8217;s sibling soon &#8211; probably anytime from a couple more weeks onwards. I&#8217;m<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2013\/01\/20\/tot-naming-revisited\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Tot Naming &#8211; Revisited<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-children-blues","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-7-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}