{"id":715,"date":"2013-10-23T13:49:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T20:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=715"},"modified":"2013-10-23T13:49:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T20:49:39","slug":"changing-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2013\/10\/23\/changing-norms\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Norms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Jezebel chart\" href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/map-sixty-years-of-the-most-popular-names-for-girls-s-1443501909\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-716\" style=\"border: 3px solid black\" alt=\"Picture 2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Picture-2-300x190.png?resize=300%2C190\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reubenfb.kinja.com\">Reuben Fischer-Baum<\/a> of <a title=\"Jezebel\" href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\">Jezebel<\/a> has made a wonderfully entertaining GIF that presents six decades of the most popular names for girls, &#8220;state by state.&#8221; He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Baby naming generally follows a consistent cycle: A name springs up in some region of the U.S.\u2014&#8221;Ashley&#8221; in the South, &#8220;Emily&#8221; in the Northeast\u2014sweeps over the country, and falls out of favor nearly as quickly. The big exception to these baby booms and busts is &#8220;Jennifer&#8221;, which absolutely dominates America for a decade-and-a-half. If you&#8217;re named Jennifer and you were born between 1970 and 1984, don&#8217;t worry! I&#8217;m sure you have a totally cool, unique middle name.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the recession seems to have put a temporary damper on creative baby naming. In 2007, eight different baby names made the map\u2014including less-traditional names like Addison, Ava, and Madison\u2014and all carried at least two states. By 2012 the map has just five names, and 47 states went with either &#8220;Sophia&#8221; or &#8220;Emma.&#8221; A yearning for simpler times?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Language Log and Girls' Names\" href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=7980#more-7980\">The fine folk at Language Log dig into the data<\/a> with their typical, amusing obsessiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuben Fischer-Baum of Jezebel has made a wonderfully entertaining GIF that presents six decades of the most popular names for girls, &#8220;state by state.&#8221; He writes: Baby naming generally follows a consistent cycle: A name springs up in some region &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2013\/10\/23\/changing-norms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-language"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}