{"id":283,"date":"2016-07-09T18:16:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T18:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2016-07-09T18:16:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T18:16:34","slug":"first-naming-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"First-naming in politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been talking about the inherent sexism of calling Candidate Clinton by her first name, Hillary, while using last names or full titles with the other candidates (&#8220;Trump&#8221;, &#8220;Bush&#8221;, &#8230;). Then, of course, there&#8217;s Bernie, which throws a wrench in my theory.<\/p>\n<p>Ian McEwan has another theory, as evinced by his one-line throwaway in an article in the Guardian (https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/jul\/09\/country-political-crisis-tories-prime-minister): it&#8217;s a way to make us disenfranchised plebs more interested in the goings on of the elections.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Our first-naming paradoxically measures our distance from events.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been talking about the inherent sexism of calling Candidate Clinton by her first name, Hillary, while using last names or full titles with the other candidates (&#8220;Trump&#8221;, &#8220;Bush&#8221;, &#8230;). Then, of course, there&#8217;s Bernie, which throws a wrench in my theory. Ian McEwan has another theory, as evinced by his one-line throwaway in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}