{"id":741,"date":"2006-10-22T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/22\/i-am-a-unique-flower\/"},"modified":"2006-10-22T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-22T09:22:00","slug":"i-am-a-unique-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/22\/i-am-a-unique-flower\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am a Unique Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “How many people have your name?”<\/a> thing has come across my RSS feed a dozen or so times already, most recently via the very common John Lynch<\/a>. I was finally bored enough to put my name in, and here’s what I get:<\/p>\n

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There are 0 people in the U.S. named Chad Orzel.<\/p>\n

While both names you entered were found in our database, neither was common enough to make it likely that someone in the U.S. has that name.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There’s also nobody in the US named “Kate Nepveu.” In fact, they don’t register anyone at all with the surname “Nepveu” (there are apparently 570 Orzels, many of them my cousins…). What are the odds that a couple of figments like us would be married?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The “How many people have your name?” thing has come across my RSS feed a dozen or so times already, most recently via the very common John Lynch. I was finally bored enough to put my name in, and here’s what I get: There are 0 people in the U.S. named Chad Orzel. While both… Continue reading I Am a Unique Flower<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}