{"id":1092,"date":"2007-10-15T09:46:22","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T13:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2007-10-15T09:46:22","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T13:46:22","slug":"i-am-not-spock-sherm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1092","title":{"rendered":"I am not <del>Spock<\/del> Sherm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twice in the last day, people who know me a little but are not particularly close have called me &#8220;Sherm.&#8221; This occasionally happens both face-to-face and on e-mail, but I&#8217;m wondering if others take slight name mangling as a subtle signal about interlocutors. (Others misspell my last name, especially customer-service folks who find it hard to distinguish <em>Dorn<\/em> from <em>Dorm<\/em> on the phone, but <em>Sherman<\/em> is easy to spell.) I&#8217;ll answer to the name, certainly, but I&#8217;m curious how it is that people don&#8217;t listen when I introduce myself and don&#8217;t ask whether abbreviations are preferred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twice in the last day, people who know me a little but are not particularly close have called me &#8220;Sherm.&#8221; This occasionally happens both face-to-face and on e-mail, but I&#8217;m wondering if others take slight name mangling as a subtle signal about interlocutors. (Others misspell my last name, especially customer-service folks who find it hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-comments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-hC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}