{"id":172,"date":"2007-07-08T21:12:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T20:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2007-07-08T21:12:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-08T20:12:01","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"What&#039;s in a name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a quirky little panel in the latest issue of <em>Archaeology<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archaeology.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">magazine<\/a> ran an online poll giving readers a chance to vote for their favourite Maya royal name &#8212; names made delightfully exotic by their translation into English.<\/p>\n<p>Topping the poll with 24% of the vote was Smoking Squirrel, followed by 18 Rabbit (15%), Lady Six Sky (13%)  and Moon Skull (12%). Others making up the top 10 were Smoke Monkey, Knot-eye Jaguar, Turtle Tooth and Curl Snout.<\/p>\n<p>Translation can make anything funny. Take <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/story?id=3326018&amp;page=1&amp;CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> <strong>ABC News<\/strong> report on how US presidential contenders fare in Chinese; the ballot in Massachusetts could well feature names such as Sticky Rice (Mitt Romney), Triumphant Wheat (John McCain), Tired Forest (Hilary Clinton) and Profound Horse (Barack Obama).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a quirky little panel in the latest issue of Archaeology. The magazine ran an online poll giving readers a chance to vote for their favourite Maya royal name &#8212; names made delightfully exotic by their translation into English. Topping the poll with 24% of the vote was Smoking Squirrel, followed by 18 Rabbit (15%), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,8,57,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}