{"id":2,"date":"2005-09-19T05:06:54","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T09:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.halcyonrepose.com\/?p=2"},"modified":"2005-09-19T05:06:54","modified_gmt":"2005-09-19T09:06:54","slug":"what-is-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.halcyonrepose.com\/?p=2","title":{"rendered":"What is in a name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>So why chose the name HalcyonRepose.com?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As is always the case with the internet, my first few choices were already taken.  I have long been enamoured with the word halcyon, so I knew my goal from the beginning was to find an available URL that would accomidate my word passion (my other word of choice being ornery, but that doesn&#8217;t have the same website possibilities).  My first choice was HalcyonDreams.com, and of course that was already taken.  Back to the drawing board it was.  I did some brain storming lists, but I kept coming back to halcyon.  I was doing some research into the word for some ideas, and in the process I found a quotion from Thomas De Quincy that was simply &#8220;Deep, halcyon repose&#8221;.  It immediately struck me as &#8216;right&#8217; (as all important decisions should) and now here we are.<\/p>\n<p>Where we go from here, we will have to see. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Is this a blog?<\/strong>  Well technically yes. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Will it be my online journal? <\/strong> Yes and no.  In my efforts to improve myself, one of my perceived defficencies is my lack of ability to communicate.  I feel I have made great strides in this over the years, but this is another step down that road.  Every time I bear my soul, so to speak, it gets a little easier.  In fact just the act of organizing my thoughts into a form I can portray, seems to make the entire process more automatic.<\/p>\n<p>Of course in addition to the above, this will also be a place to put all those digital items that I feel others need access to. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So why chose the name HalcyonRepose.com? As is always the case with the internet, my first few choices were already taken. I have long been enamoured with the word halcyon, so I knew my goal from the beginning was to find an available URL that would accomidate my word passion (my other word of choice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halcyonrepose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halcyonrepose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halcyonrepose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halcyonrepose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halcyonrepose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.halcyonrepose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halcyonrepose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halcyonrepose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halcyonrepose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}