{"id":8219,"date":"2017-01-02T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8219"},"modified":"2017-01-01T21:04:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T03:04:38","slug":"the-continuing-signs-of-the-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/01\/the-continuing-signs-of-the-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"The continuing signs of the apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/OACT\/babynames\/index.html\">Social Security baby name tracker<\/a>, in 2015:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There were nearly 4,000 Nevaehs born, good for 70th place overall.<\/li>\n<li>There were twice as many Skylars than Marys.<\/li>\n<li>More girls were named Londyn or Jordyn than Rebecca; more named Emersyn or Camryn than Jillian.<\/li>\n<li>Jennifer and Melissa are out of the Top 250 and only marginally more popular than Sawyer &#8230; on the <em>girls<\/em>&#8216; side&#8230;as a <em>first<\/em> name (<a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/wsj\/news\/local\/health-med-fit\/what-s-in-a-name-for-madison-s-first-babies\/article_0e60f53f-b011-5fa9-b53c-30f3893a7192.html\">and Madison WI&#8217;s second baby of 2017<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Jaxon was the 44th-most-popular boys&#8217; name and Jaxson was 84th, two ahead of Jason. (Jackson proper &#8211; at least, as proper as a last name in a list of first names can be &#8211; is all the way up at 17th.)<\/li>\n<li>Aiden (rank: 13), Jayden (20), Brayden (61), Kayden (95), Aidan (185), and Zayden (193).<\/li>\n<li>And 1,509 male babies named Messiah.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If that&#8217;s not doom-laden enough, New York magazine&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/selectall\/2016\/12\/best-funny-memes-2016-harambe-arthur-dat-boi-joe-biden.html\">&#8220;best memes of the year&#8221;<\/a> make it hard to argue we don&#8217;t deserve it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Social Security baby name tracker, in 2015: There were nearly 4,000 Nevaehs born, good for 70th place overall. There were twice as many Skylars than Marys. More girls were named Londyn or Jordyn than Rebecca; more named &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/01\/the-continuing-signs-of-the-apocalypse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8222,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions\/8222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}