{"id":303,"date":"2003-09-17T10:54:51","date_gmt":"2003-09-17T13:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=303"},"modified":"2003-09-17T10:54:51","modified_gmt":"2003-09-17T13:54:51","slug":"youve-got-a-new-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ve got a new name!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>A<\/span>OL Time Warner is planning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/business\/5968.htm\">to ditch the AOL<\/a> in their name. So does this mean that the executives finally admit that the whole merger was a big mistake, I wonder.\n<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing is that it appears to be easier to change <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;c2coff=1&#038;q=corporation%2Bchange%2Bname&#038;sa=N&#038;tab=wn\">the name of a company<\/a> than to have your name changed. Not that I&#8217;m not happy with my last name, which I happen to be proud of, but sometimes I feel for those telemarketers who are forced to say my name.\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote><strong>me<\/strong>: Hello?<br \/>\n<strong>telemarketeer<\/strong>: Hello, mister Hooo.. Hoe&#8212;oek. Hotcherpotch?<br \/>\n<strong>me<\/strong>: Wrong answer. Bye.\n<\/p>\n<p>On preview: Life is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AOL Time Warner is planning to ditch the AOL in their name. So does this mean that the executives finally admit that the whole merger was a big mistake, I wonder. The funny thing is that it appears to be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=303\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}