{"id":106638,"date":"2020-05-06T08:02:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T15:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/what-does-elon-musk-and-grimes-baby-name-actually-mean"},"modified":"2020-05-06T08:02:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T15:02:40","slug":"what-does-elon-musk-and-grimes-baby-name-actually-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/what-does-elon-musk-and-grimes-baby-name-actually-mean","title":{"rendered":"What Does Elon Musk and Grimes\u2019 Baby Name Actually Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-does-elon-musk-and-grimes-baby-name-actually-mean2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutting matters of taste aside, X \u00c6 A-12 is a wildly impractical name,\u201d Wattenberg went on. \u201cIt\u2019s not only hard to spell and remember and virtually unpronounceable; it\u2019s not even easily <em>typable<\/em> and no forms or databases will accept it. It\u2019s simply nonfunctional. If\u2014and it\u2019s a big if\u2014this is their real name choice, it\u2019s in a whole different class than other celebrity baby names that people object to on the basis of style. It fails at the basic job of being a contemporary American name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFails at the basic job of being a contemporary American name\u201d would sound, to a lot of us, like failure. I doubt it would to Musk and Grimes. Perhaps the only answer for them was going to be a name that fails at being a name, and therefore deconstructs the concept of people having names in general. In that case, mission accomplished. Though, of course, there\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/human-interest\/2016\/04\/the-story-behind-princes-unpronounceable-love-symbol-2.html\">someone else who did it first<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPutting matters of taste aside, X \u00c6 A-12 is a wildly impractical name,\u201d Wattenberg went on. \u201cIt\u2019s not only hard to spell and remember and virtually unpronounceable; it\u2019s not even easily typable and no forms or databases will accept it. It\u2019s simply nonfunctional. If\u2014and it\u2019s a big if\u2014this is their real name choice, it\u2019s in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}