{"id":18032,"date":"2019-09-23T12:58:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T19:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18032"},"modified":"2019-09-23T12:58:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T19:58:56","slug":"starbucks-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2019\/09\/23\/starbucks-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks name"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>My father has what he calls his <i>Starbucks name<\/i>, the name that he gives the staff to holler out when his coffee is ready for him. He has several times initiated a conversation about what my <i>Starbucks name<\/i> should be. It\u2019s not just at the eponymous coffeeshop, of course, but in almost any situation where a person might give a name that has to be remembered and called out in public.\r\n<p>I am bothering telling you so because the phrase and idea is in one of the questions in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/JewishNames\">Survey about American Jewish First Names<\/a> being conducted on-line by Sarah Bunin Benor and Jason Bronowitz. It had not occurred to me that the notion of a <I>Starbucks name<\/i> would be a Jewish idea\u2026 and maybe it isn\u2019t. So, since names are words and coffee is stuff, I bring it to any of y\u2019all who read this blog: do you have a <i>Starbucks name<\/i>? Why? Why not? Do you think your choice of Starbucks name has a particular political power? Or do you think of it (as my father does) as a concession to a world that is unwilling to bend itself to you? Do you use a Starbucks name because your name is uncommon, or because it is too common? Do you work as a barista or host or other position that involves calling out names\u2014and do you have any thoughts about the use of Starbucks names?\r\n<p>Thanks,<br>-Ed.\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fake name you give a service worker in a noisy establishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-names"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18033,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18032\/revisions\/18033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}