{"id":14973,"date":"2014-09-25T21:58:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T04:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2014\/09\/25\/14973.html"},"modified":"2014-09-25T21:58:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T04:58:20","slug":"the-song-and-the-guy-named-jed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2014\/09\/25\/the-song-and-the-guy-named-jed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Song and the guy named Jed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have no idea whether the new movie <cite>The Song<\/cite> is worth seeing, but I was mildly intrigued by the premise. The plot is that an aspiring songwriter becomes a star because of a song he writes for his wife, but the intriguing part is that it's explicitly based on the life of Solomon. I watched the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vAe2cwfmfgA\">trailer<\/a> and was slightly amused by the fact that the protagonist is the son of a guy named &ldquo;David King&rdquo;; which made me think, huh, I wonder if the protagonist's name is Solomon King. And then it turns out his name is Jed.<\/p>\n<p>Which makes total sense. My parents always told me that &ldquo;Jedediah&rdquo; was King Solomon's name before he changed it to Solomon; more precisely, &ldquo;Jedidiah&rdquo; (usually spelled with an i in the middle instead of an e) was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffriddle.net\/2008\/08\/conversation-continues-solomon-or.html\">the name that the prophet Nathan told David and Bathsheba to call their son<\/a> (2 Samuel 12:24), though apparently they had already named him Solomon at that point. (See also a page on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abarim-publications.com\/Meaning\/Jedidiah.html\">meaning and etymology of Jedidiah<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>So it's perfectly reasonable for the character in the movie to be named Jed. But it nonetheless startled and amused me.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea whether the new movie The Song is worth seeing, but I was mildly intrigued by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-personal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}