{"id":694,"date":"2009-10-06T19:31:40","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T00:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/?p=694"},"modified":"2009-10-06T19:31:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T00:31:40","slug":"people-who-cant-play-the-name-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/archives\/694","title":{"rendered":"People who can&#8217;t play &#8220;The Name Game&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that the &quot;Name Game&quot; is not recent and, in fact, it came out over a decade before I was born, but I felt that I had to address a serious (or humorous) issue.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This song was created as a children&#8217;s sing-a-long originally.  However, I do not think that the writer thought this through very well (or maybe they did).  I mean, we all no why Chuck is no longer allowed to play.  But there are many others who&#8217;s names end up with humorous results as well.  And, unfortunately &#8211; or fortunately, depending on your perspective &#8211; a lot of these names are extremely common.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of several just off of the top of my head, but I am sure that I missed many.  If you know of a name that I missed, or if your own name has humorous results, please let us all know.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alice: Put an &quot;F&quot; in front<\/li>\n<li>Chester: Replace the &quot;Ch&quot; with an &quot;F&quot;<\/li>\n<li>Chuck: Replace the &quot;Ch&quot; with an &quot;F&quot;<\/li>\n<li>Lester: Replace the &quot;L&quot; with an &quot;F&quot;<\/li>\n<li>Mitch &#8211; Replace the &quot;M&quot; with a &quot;B&quot;<\/li>\n<li>Rich &#8211; Replace the &quot;R&quot; with a &quot;B&quot;<\/li>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that the &quot;Name Game&quot; is not recent and, in fact, it came out over a decade before I was born, but I felt that I had to address a serious (or humorous) issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,13],"tags":[376,733,375],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-list","category-reader-suggestions","tag-banana-song","tag-humor","tag-name-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}