Said a woman to me at work today, “Your name is spelled wrong.”<\/p>\n
No. I’m sorry, but it’s not.<\/p>\n
I know I’ve mentioned my name before, but it bears repeating.<\/p>\n
“Allyn” is a name that’s been passed down in the family for a hundred years. I don’t know where it came from. I don’t know how it came to be spelled as it is. But just because my name has an unfamiliar variant spelling doesn’t mean it’s spelled “wrong.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Said a woman to me at work today, “Your name is spelled wrong.” No. I’m sorry, but it’s not. I know I’ve mentioned my name before, but it bears repeating. “Allyn” is a name that’s been passed down in the family for a hundred years. I don’t know where it came from. I don’t knowContinue reading “On an Annoyance”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[349],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-name","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}