{"id":193,"date":"2002-10-27T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-27T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=193"},"modified":"2002-10-27T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-27T12:34:00","slug":"october-name-project-bonus-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-10\/193-october-name-project-bonus-1","title":{"rendered":"October Name Project: Bonus 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

LAUREN :<\/b><\/font>
\nPronounced:<\/i> LOR-en
\nOrigin(s):<\/i> English
\nMeaning:<\/i> Feminine form of LAURENCE, which is from the Roman cognomen Laurentius<\/i>, which meant “of Laurentum”, the place of the laurel trees; place of honor and victory.” The laurel tree or sweet bay tree symbolic of honor and victory. Betty Jean Perske, who used “Lauren Bacall<\/b><\/a>” as her stage name, began her career as a model before moving on to acting. She landed a starring role in To Have and Have Not<\/i> (1944) opposite Humphrey Bogart. Film and television actress Lauren Holly<\/b><\/a> is best known for her role on TV’s Picket Fences<\/i>. She was married very briefly to actor Jim Carrey.
\nSpecial Significance:<\/i> I once dated a woman named Lauren L.<\/b>.<\/p>\n

STEPHEN :<\/b><\/font>
\nPronounced:<\/i> STEEV-en, STEF-en
\nOrigin(s):<\/i> Greek, English
\nMeaning:<\/i> “Crown; wreath” from the Greek name Stephanos<\/i> which means “crown”. American film director Steven Spielberg<\/b><\/a> is admired for his understanding portrayal of human character in films such as Jaws<\/i> (1975), E.T.<\/i> (1983), and the chillingly realistic war drama Saving Private Ryan<\/i> (1998). British theoretical physicist Stephen William Hawking<\/b><\/a> wrote A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes<\/i> (1988), an explanation of his work on the study of black holes that became a popular bestseller.
\nSpecial Significance:<\/i> Stephen<\/b> is my middle name.<\/p>\n

Information sources include Behind the Name<\/a> and Baby Zone<\/a>. I don’t know why I decided to do this little project, but I posted two names each day for the month of October. The first 26 days were for names from “A” to “Z”; the last five are a bonus of names that are special to me.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LAUREN : Pronounced: LOR-en Origin(s): English Meaning: Feminine form of LAURENCE, which is from the Roman cognomen Laurentius, which meant “of Laurentum”, the place of the laurel trees; place of honor and victory.” The laurel tree or sweet bay tree … Continue reading →<\/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-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","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=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}