{"id":16457,"date":"2014-05-17T03:08:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T10:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16457"},"modified":"2014-05-17T03:14:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T10:14:23","slug":"california-name-blame-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-name-blame-game\/","title":{"rendered":"California Name (Blame) Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/kdname.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you see these pictures, what do you think of? Apples, lavender and maple syrup, of course! All evoke emotions of something sweet&#8211;the taste of a sweet apple, the scent of fresh lavender in the fields, and smooth, maple syrup that can&#8217;t be beat. \u00a0They also happen to be girls&#8217; names in California. What are these parents thinking? \u00a0According to the Social Security Administration more than\u00a0five people named newborn\u00a0daughters Lavender, Apple, Feather\u00a0or\u00a0Maple\u00a0in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just a name, right? In a classic movie, &#8220;The Christmas Story,&#8221; Ralphie is terrorized by neighborhood bully Scut Farcus. The name sounds\u00a0disgusting. Having odd names is a tradition in Hollywood especially,\u00a0where musician Frank Zappa&#8217;s son Dweezil and daughter, Moon Unit, have appeared in\u00a0film\u00a0productions.\u00a0Other\u00a0names on the 2013 roster of baby girls included days of the week, months in a year, cities and even the state of California. \u00a0Boys didn&#8217;t get off any easier. Parents\u00a0liked names such as\u00a0Bosco, Mister, Dragon or Tiger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 10 BABY NAMES in California 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BOY |\u00a0GIRL<\/p>\n<p>1 \u00a0 Jacob | \u00a0\u00a0Sophia<br \/>\n2 \u00a0 Ethan \u00a0| \u00a0 Isabella<br \/>\n3 \u00a0 Daniel | \u00a0 \u00a0Mia<br \/>\n4 \u00a0 Jayden \u00a0| \u00a0Emma<br \/>\n5 \u00a0 Matthew \u00a0| \u00a0 Emily<br \/>\n6 \u00a0 Noah \u00a0| \u00a0\u00a0Olivia<br \/>\n7 \u00a0 Alexander| \u00a0Sofia<br \/>\n8 \u00a0 Anthony|\u00a0 \u00a0Camila<br \/>\n9 \u00a0 Nathan \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0Abigail<br \/>\n10 \u00a0 David | \u00a0 \u00a0Samantha<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you see these pictures, what do you think of? Apples, lavender and maple syrup, of course! All evoke emotions of something sweet&#8211;the taste of a sweet apple, the scent of fresh lavender in the fields, and smooth, maple syrup that can&#8217;t be beat. \u00a0They also happen to be girls&#8217; names in California. What are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16457"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}