{"id":143,"date":"2002-10-02T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-02T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=143"},"modified":"2002-10-02T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-02T12:34:00","slug":"october-name-project-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-10\/143-october-name-project-b","title":{"rendered":"October Name Project: B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font SIZE=+2 COLOR=\"#0066FF\"><b> BARNEY :<\/b><\/font><br \/>\n<i>Pronounced:<\/i> BAR-nee<br \/>\n<i>Origin(s):<\/i> English<br \/>\n<i>Meaning:<\/i> &#8220;Son of comfort.&#8221; <b>Barney Rubble<\/b> was Fred Flintstone&#8217;s buddy.<\/p>\n<p><font SIZE=+2 COLOR=\"#FF66FF\"><b> BERTHA :<\/b><\/font><br \/>\n<i>Pronounced:<\/i> BUR-tha<br \/>\n<i>Origin(s):<\/i> German, Teutonic<br \/>\n<i>Meaning:<\/i> &#8220;Intelligent, Bright, Sparkling, Famous&#8221; from the Germanic element <i>beraht<\/i>. This is a character in German legends who sneaks into nurseries and rocks children to sleep. <b>Big Bertha<\/b> was the name given to a large, long-range German cannon used during World War I.<\/p>\n<p><font SIZE=-2>Information sources include <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.behindthename.com\/\">Behind the Name<\/a> and <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.babyzone.com\/babynames\/\">Baby Zone<\/a>. I don&#8217;t know why I decided to do this little project, but I&#8217;m going to post two names each day for the month of October. The names for each day will begin with same letter, and I&#8217;ll work my way through the alphabet until I do &#8220;Z&#8221; on October 26th. The names for the rest of the month will come from reader submissions.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARNEY : Pronounced: BAR-nee Origin(s): English Meaning: &#8220;Son of comfort.&#8221; Barney Rubble was Fred Flintstone&#8217;s buddy. BERTHA : Pronounced: BUR-tha Origin(s): German, Teutonic Meaning: &#8220;Intelligent, Bright, Sparkling, Famous&#8221; from the Germanic element beraht. This is a character in German legends &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-10\/143-october-name-project-b\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}