{"id":11007,"date":"2019-10-28T20:33:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T00:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=11007"},"modified":"2019-10-29T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T21:41:00","slug":"people-always-make-fun-of-my-last-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/10\/28\/people-always-make-fun-of-my-last-name\/","title":{"rendered":"People always make fun of my last name&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"508\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10292019-05.jpg\" alt=\"People always make fun of my last name b\/c it sounds like &quot;Penguin.&quot; How do I cope?\" class=\"wp-image-10996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10292019-05.jpg 508w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10292019-05-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><figcaption>People always make fun of my last name b\/c it sounds like &#8220;Penguin.&#8221; How do I cope?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry people are doing that. Perhaps let them know that they aren&#8217;t the first to notice. Or say, &#8220;It&#8217;s my cross to bear; I didn&#8217;t choose it.&#8221; It isn&#8217;t remotely meaningful that your surname happens to rhyme with a word in English. Maybe you could even learn all about penguins, and use the tired joke as a cue to inundate someone with penguin facts? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sorry people are doing that. Perhaps let them know that they aren&#8217;t the first to notice. Or say, &#8220;It&#8217;s my cross to bear; I didn&#8217;t choose it.&#8221; It isn&#8217;t remotely meaningful that your surname happens to rhyme with a word in English. Maybe you could even learn all about penguins, and use the tired &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/10\/28\/people-always-make-fun-of-my-last-name\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;People always make fun of my last name&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11030,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11007\/revisions\/11030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}