{"id":1366,"date":"2006-10-23T08:13:02","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T15:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2006-10-23T08:13:02","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T15:13:02","slug":"will-the-real-dave-bacon-please-stand-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/10\/23\/will-the-real-dave-bacon-please-stand-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Real Dave Bacon Please Stand Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><\/p>\n<table width=\"350\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" cellpadding=\"1\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;font-size: 16px;color: white\">HowManyOfMe.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;text-align: center;font-size: 14px;background-color: white\">\n<table width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"120\" style=\"text-align: center;padding-top: 2px;background-color: white\"><a href=\"http:\/\/howmanyofme.com\" style=\"text-decoration: none\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/extimg.howmanyofme.com\/extimages\/howmany-logo.png?resize=100%2C100\" alt=\"Logo\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" style=\"border: 1px black\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;font-size: 16px;background-color: white\"><span style=\"color: black\">There are:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">10<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: black\">people with my name<br \/>in the U.S.A.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><a style=\"color: #0066B3;font-weight:  bold;line-height: 180%;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"http:\/\/howmanyofme.com\">How many have your name?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/div>\n<p>Update: As Greg points out the way this thing works is pretty dang silly.  For me it gives me 108 with my name (10 if I use Dave, and 98 if I use David).  Anecdotally this seems off.  Why?  Well I grew up in a town of just over 6000 and there were two (2!) people with my name.  One of them was even my age and had the same middle initial.  In fact that&#8217;s how my name got changed to Dave from David.  The teachers needed some way to distinguish us and so I got Dave and he got David.   So 2\/6000 times 300 million = 100000.  Mmm&#8230;argument by anecdote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HowManyOfMe.com There are:10people with my namein the U.S.A. How many have your name? Update: As Greg points out the way this thing works is pretty dang silly. For me it gives me 108 with my name (10 if I use Dave, and 98 if I use David). Anecdotally this seems off. Why? Well I grew &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/10\/23\/will-the-real-dave-bacon-please-stand-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Will the Real Dave Bacon Please Stand Up?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-meet-center-center-meet-self"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}