{"id":80,"date":"2010-01-19T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.benaimfletcher.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2010-01-19T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T21:04:00","slug":"married-name-email-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Married Name Email Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>apparently rebecca fletcher, &amp; most all variations of it, are taken on gmail. #marriedname<\/p>\n<p>whatcha think: ribfletcher, beccafletcher10 or fletcher.becca for my #marriedname email addy? currently is becca.benaim<\/p>\n<p>beccafletcher42 is also available<\/p>\n<p>beccafletcher42 it is..<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I have always identified with my name. Not the &#8220;duh&#8221; statement that it sounds like, but because my father named me after him. That is, he gave me his initials: RIB. And in just shy of 9 months, I will be losing my awesome initials. I made the decision not to hyphenate and to just have 2 middle names. My mom did it, but uses her maiden name on legal documents instead of both. I just don\u2019t feel right saddling our kids with a huge last name just to keep mine. I am thrilled to be taking on Steve\u2019s last name.<\/p>\n<p>However, I will go from being 100% unique to quite common. Every time I Google my name, I know I will be every one of the results.  I was told a few months ago by a friend that I will be the third Rebecca Fletcher on her facebook page after I change my name. Utterly common. But hey, my name will be easy to spell and pronounce!<\/p>\n<p>This morning a twitter friend mentioned securing her married name\u2019s email address. I tried so many different combinations before finally landing on benaimfletcher42. My maiden, my married, and the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy\"><b>Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything<\/b>.<\/a>\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/42_%28number%29\"> <b>42<\/b> <\/a>is also the binary number of our wedding date. Oh yes, I went there. I admit to my geekiness!<\/p>\n<p>42 is also something I&#8217;ve been contemplating for my next tattoo&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_-IKaV82Z3Eo\/S1YeKd9rbxI\/AAAAAAAAAWc\/qvbLoG1JS10\/s1600-h\/42tatt.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_-IKaV82Z3Eo\/S1YeKd9rbxI\/AAAAAAAAAWc\/qvbLoG1JS10\/s320\/42tatt.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>apparently rebecca fletcher, &amp; most all variations of it, are taken on gmail. #marriedname whatcha think: ribfletcher, beccafletcher10 or fletcher.becca for my #marriedname email addy? currently is becca.benaim beccafletcher42 is also available beccafletcher42 it is.. I have always identified with my name. Not the &#8220;duh&#8221; statement that it sounds like, but because my father named [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-married-name"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}