{"id":829,"date":"2009-05-07T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=829"},"modified":"2009-05-07T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T23:10:00","slug":"alex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"Alex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A relative of Her Worshipfulness&#8217;s says I look like Ben.  I took me several iterations of this to realize she meant not some relative or friend, but rather Ben Affleck.  Now, the veracity of this observation aside, it brings to light a social development which I simply do not understand: reference to celebrities by first names only.<\/p>\n<p>How do you know which Jen is &#8220;Jen&#8221;?  How does one receive this Kane-like honorific-free honor?  Who decides?  Does it change?  Was it Jennifer Garner at one point?  I was just at Dash&#8217;s and the latest rag declared the nuptials of two people I&#8217;ve never even seen before, but who are listed by first names only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A relative of Her Worshipfulness&#8217;s says I look like Ben. I took me several iterations of this to realize she meant not some relative or friend, but rather Ben Affleck. Now, the veracity of this observation aside, it brings to light a social development which I simply do not understand: reference to celebrities by first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}