{"id":270,"date":"2004-03-05T07:22:16","date_gmt":"2004-03-05T13:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=270"},"modified":"2004-03-05T07:22:16","modified_gmt":"2004-03-05T13:22:16","slug":"whats-your-chinese-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2004\/03\/05\/whats-your-chinese-name\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s your Chinese Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t pronounce mine!<\/p>\n<p>Okay, this isn&#8217;t the most &#8220;accurate&#8221; of tools, but it is interesting.  Basically, it&#8217;s a little web gadget that takes some information from you and pops out your, roughly approximated, Chinese &#8220;equivalent&#8221; name.  The disclaimer says that you should get an expert to help you choose a Chinese name before using it in a real-world situation, since the Chinese feel that names are quite important to the character of a person.  All of which is very interesting to me in terms of a created culture or created language.<br \/>\nFor instance, I can picture a culture that has a separate language for naming.  Or who hide their names for magical protection.  Or who <i>change<\/i> their names for the same reason!  Really, the possibilities are endless.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah, you can find <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mandarintools.com\/chinesename.html\">the &#8220;Get a Chinese Name&#8221; tool here<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t pronounce mine! Okay, this isn&#8217;t the most &#8220;accurate&#8221; of tools, but it is interesting. Basically, it&#8217;s a little web gadget that takes some information from you and pops out your, roughly approximated, Chinese &#8220;equivalent&#8221; name. The disclaimer says that you should get an expert to help you choose a Chinese name before using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,27,18],"tags":[419],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constructed-languages","category-fun","category-invented-worlds","tag-little-web-gadget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}