{"id":19495,"date":"2013-07-08T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=19495"},"modified":"2013-07-08T09:01:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T13:01:33","slug":"whats-my-nick-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/whats-my-nick-name\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s My (Nick) Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/216px-Pittsburgh_Pirates_MLB_Logo_svg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-19507 aligncenter\" alt=\"216px-Pittsburgh_Pirates_MLB_Logo_svg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/216px-Pittsburgh_Pirates_MLB_Logo_svg.png\" width=\"216\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>While reading about the surprising success of the 2013 Pittsburgh Pirates, I noticed that the columnist referred to the team with the familiar insider\u2019s nickname of the \u201cBuccos\u201d a few times. That reminded me of how the Montreal Canadiens were sometimes called the \u201cHabs\u201d instead. It\u2019s odd because a team name is a nickname already. Why would you need an insider\u2019s nickname to the nickname?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A band\u2019s name is a nickname too, but sometimes the hippest of the hipsters need to prove their deeper band loyalty by referring to their favorites by their second-level nickname. Are there a lot of these? Ask your friends Whitey and Lumpy for the band nicknames that can only be associated with a single band and must be obviously recognized as that band\u2019s nickname. <em>Easy one:<\/em> Everyone knows your talking about The Beatles when you say the Fab Four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reading about the surprising success of the 2013 Pittsburgh Pirates, I noticed that the columnist referred to the team with the familiar insider\u2019s nickname of the \u201cBuccos\u201d a few times. That reminded me of how the Montreal Canadiens were sometimes called the \u201cHabs\u201d instead. It\u2019s odd because a team name is a nickname already. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/whats-my-nick-name\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[555],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}