{"id":21936,"date":"2014-08-18T11:42:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T15:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=21936"},"modified":"2014-08-18T11:42:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T15:42:43","slug":"the-name-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-name-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Name Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2jfVpizj1Uk\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nAfter the reveal of cherguevarra&#8217;s recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mystery-date-42\/#more-21904\">Mystery Date<\/a>, Mr. Royale and I got to riffing about the name <em>Michael<\/em>. Let&#8217;s cut to the chase here: <strong>Is there an uncooler rock (first) name than Michael?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael Bolton. Michael Buble. Michael Feinstein. Michael McDonald. And some of you would add Michael Stipe. Honestly, are there any rockin&#8217; Michaels? Or is there <em>another<\/em> first name that better signifies earnest schmaltzy music?<\/p>\n<p>For those few cool or semi-hip Michaels out there, why did they go by Michael rather than the arguably cooler Mike, Mick, or (even) Mickey?<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, if we agree on Michael, what would be his female counterpart? Tiffany?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the reveal of cherguevarra&#8217;s recent Mystery Date, Mr. Royale and I got to riffing about the name Michael. Let&#8217;s cut to the chase here: Is there an uncooler rock (first) name than Michael? Michael Bolton. Michael Buble. Michael Feinstein. Michael McDonald. And some of you would add Michael Stipe. Honestly, are there any rockin&#8217; <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-name-game\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[484,965],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21936"}],"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\/1838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}