{"id":4416,"date":"2008-08-05T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2021-03-09T19:00:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T00:00:39","slug":"writers-block-where-names-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4416","title":{"rendered":"Writer&#8217;s Block: Where Names Come From"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><lj-template name=\"qotd\" id=\"482\"><\/lj-template><\/p>\n<p>Back when I traded dial-up BBS handles for an ICQ UIN, I found myself prompted to create a username.  I was heavily into White Wolf role playing games at the time, having recently graduated from AD&amp;D 2nd Edition.  Inside the White Wolf universe, a newly created vampire is called a Childe, and the creator vampire is called a Sire.  As I was still pretty new, I decided to go by Childe.<\/p>\n<p>Like the Skippy nickname, it stuck.  And that&#8217;s&#8230; the rest of the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I traded dial-up BBS handles for an ICQ UIN, I found myself prompted to create a username. I was heavily into White Wolf role playing games at the time, having recently graduated from AD&amp;D 2nd Edition. Inside the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4416\">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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[34,37,15],"class_list":["post-4416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-livejournal","tag-white-wolf","tag-writery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-19e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7623,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions\/7623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}