{"id":508,"date":"2002-07-01T18:42:55","date_gmt":"2002-07-02T01:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/07\/01\/508.html"},"modified":"2002-07-01T18:42:55","modified_gmt":"2002-07-02T01:42:55","slug":"jedediah-wasnt-a-bullfrog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/07\/01\/jedediah-wasnt-a-bullfrog\/","title":{"rendered":"Jedediah wasn&#8217;t a bullfrog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It occurred to me that more unusual names might produce better results in the Google-name-game.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jedediah is curious about this now.<\/li>\n<li>The interior of Jedediah is comprised of forest ecosystems...<\/li>\n<li>Jedediah is my first-born and he was so desired.<\/li>\n<li>Jedediah is accessible only by boat.<\/li>\n<li>The archipelago of islands in which Jedediah is centred, is often referred to as the \"String of Pearls\"<\/li>\n<li>Jedediah is now officially a park!<\/li>\n<li>If you are looking for a more intermediate paddle to a beautiful Island hide-a-way then Jedediah is your traveling destination.<\/li>\n<li>Jedediah is one of the most strong willed and stubborn men I have ever met, but his loyalty runs as deep as a valley.<\/li>\n<li>Jedediah is holding the Maryland Arms Collectors Association Trophy bowl... <\/li>\n<li>Jedediah is described in the probate records as a \"wood wharfinger,\"...<\/li>\n<li>Jedediah is mentioned in the will of Alexander Edwards as his \"dear friend.\"<\/li>\n<li>Jedediah is buried in Richland, Oswego County, New York where he had finally settled.<\/li>\n<li>The third Jedediah is mine.<\/li>\n<li>Jedediah is back. That doesn't mean all my little green dragons are Jedediah, but this is him again.<\/li>\n<li>Jedediah is her faithful friend, companion, and servant.<\/li>\n<li>Jedediah is from Portland, Oregon, and will be a Senior English major next year at Stanford University.<\/li>\n<li>Jedediah is a cool name. I wouldn't trade it for the world. It made me what I am today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That also led me to a mini-bio of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/cott1388\/jedediah.html\">Jedediah Strong Smith<\/a>, the early-nineteenth-century California explorer who I was partly named after.  I didn't previously know much about him, but now I'm intrigued:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Smith was not your typical mountain man. He was tall, silent and never used tobacco or profanity, never boasted. Reared a Methodist, Smith was a devout Christian who always remained a gentleman even in the wildest frontier company. He was cool under pressure, with strength and leadership ability that was grounded in his faith.<\/p>\n<p>...<\/p>\n<p>And as a mountain man, explorer-and-trapper, Jedediah Strong Smith was doubtless the greatest pathfinder of them all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But even better than that is the catch-phrase down at the bottom of the page, next to a link to an ad for a book about Smith:<\/p>\n<p>\"Half preacher, half grizzly: just an ordinary man, used by God.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurred to me that more unusual names might produce better results in the Google-name-game. Jedediah is curious about this&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","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=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}