{"id":1260,"date":"2011-02-25T07:26:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T15:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=470"},"modified":"2011-02-25T07:26:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T15:26:41","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/25\/whats-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/23b-whatsinaname2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-474\" title=\"23b.whatsinaname\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/23b-whatsinaname2.jpg?resize=360%2C362\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"362\" \/><\/a> \u201cWhat\u2019s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,\u201d so Juliet tells Romeo in Shakespeare\u2019s tragedy of a play.\u00a0 And what about the \u201cFetid Adder\u2019s Tongue\u201d?\u00a0 Why such tragically ugly name pinned on such a lovely, little flower?\u00a0 Does it change our experience to know the name?\u00a0 So what\u2019s in a name anyway?\u00a0 As a school aged kid with a very common name (I was one of three Lisa\u2019s in my third grade class) I used to fantasize about who I would be if I just had a different name.\u00a0 I wondered if my name was more exotic would <strong><em>I<\/em><\/strong> be more exotic?\u00a0 Can a name shape how people react to us?\u00a0 And while I may have listed fantasy names in a diary I never took the plunge to really change my name, as my father himself did as young man to stake a claim on his own identity and make himself new and separate from his family name.\u00a0 It\u2019s possible that my commonplace name propelled me to stand out amongst the crowd, that the ordinariness of Lisa the name poked me into being unexpected and unique Lisa the person.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to say, what effect a name can have.\u00a0 I know a young woman who has the astoundingly lovely name of Skye Blue.\u00a0 It\u2019s true!\u00a0 What would I have done with such a moniker!?\u00a0 Or could it be a burden to write such poetry at the top of every book report, essay, and final exam and at the bottom of every credit card slip?\u00a0 Are our expectations of a person influenced by their name?\u00a0 This all became more than conversation when my husband and I were expecting our son.\u00a0 Fairly quickly we decided to name him after my husband\u2019s sweet, kind, gentle grandfather, Ivan, wanting to imbue him with the attributes along with the name.\u00a0 You would not believe the raised eyebrows we got when we told folks our plans and not just a couple of \u201cIvan the Terrible\u201d remarks.\u00a0 We always countered with \u201cIvan the Terrific\u201d, but it did give me pause, was I hanging a name on him that would burden him?\u00a0 In the end we pressed on and decided the world needed this Ivan and he has turned out terrific.\u00a0 We are who we are despite of or because of our name. \u00a0We have the power, as adults, to change it or embrace it, shorten it or hyphenate it and pound it to fit our form.\u00a0 And what of \u201cFetid Adder\u2019s Tongue\u201d?\u00a0 This diminutive flower that carries such a colossal name flowers for perhaps another month so go seek it out and find out for yourself <em>what\u2019s in a name<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s in a name? 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