{"id":867,"date":"2010-10-02T23:21:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T04:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=867"},"modified":"2010-10-02T23:21:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T04:21:54","slug":"nomen-omen-apparently-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"Nomen Omen? Apparently Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I drove down I-97 from Baltimore to Annapolis and found that part of it is named &#8220;Senator John A. Cade Memorial Highway&#8221; after a long-time <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_A._Cade\">state legislator<\/a>. Having seen and enjoyed <em>Henry VI, Part 2<\/em> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanshakespearecenter.com\/\">Blackfriars Playhouse<\/a> last spring, I wondered whether his friends called him &#8216;Jack&#8217;. Google suggests that they did (examples <a href=\"http:\/\/advancement.umd.edu\/celebration\/showScholarship.php?main_id=344\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mlis.state.md.us\/PDF-Documents\/1997rs\/bills\/sb\/sb0156t.PDF\">here<\/a> [PDF]). Of course, Shakespeare&#8217;s Jack Cade was not a Republican, or not a Republican in the contemporary American sense, so the coincidence of names is not as appropriate as it might have been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I drove down I-97 from Baltimore to Annapolis and found that part of it is named &#8220;Senator John A. Cade Memorial Highway&#8221; after a long-time state legislator. Having seen and enjoyed Henry VI, Part 2 at the Blackfriars Playhouse last spring, I wondered whether his friends called him &#8216;Jack&#8217;. Google suggests that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackfriars-playhouse","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}