{"id":249,"date":"2008-01-25T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:11:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:11:40","slug":"claiming-her-own-nickname","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/claiming-her-own-nickname.html","title":{"rendered":"Claiming Her Own Nickname"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Ruth-skipper-fatty-q.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 361px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/b\/b7\/Ruth-skipper-fatty-q.jpg\/361px-Ruth-skipper-fatty-q.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Ruth-skipper-fatty-q.jpg\">Here, to the right<\/a>, is Ruth.   She once had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Wisconsin_Farm_Life%2C_1930s\">photo album of her life in the late 1930s<\/a>, which I&#8217;ve started scanning recently.   On the second page of the album, she has a series of captioned photos captioned as a dramatis personae, identifying the players in her life.   Her self-portrait includes several nicknames &#8212; &#8220;Fatty Q&#8221; being one of them.  While not the lithest of ingenues, Ruth isn&#8217;t obese, so that might be why she&#8217;s accepted the nickname without offense.  The nickname of &#8216;Skipper&#8217; is interesting, too.  The two things we associate &#8216;skipper&#8217; with &#8212; the fat guy on Gilligan&#8217;s Island, and Barbie&#8217;s sister &#8212; were decades away from Ruth&#8217;s life.    Captaining a boat was the main definition, although &#8216;one who skips&#8217; could mean she either has a slight jump in her step, or maybe she prefers to avoid going to class.  Either way, Ruth has two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/1930s-nicknames.html\">1930s nicknames<\/a> that she was proud enough to own to save it for her kids to see:  I hope she was still as proud of them years later.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-3038688923208943626?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here, to the right, is Ruth. She once had a photo album of her life in the late 1930s, which I&#8217;ve started scanning recently. On the second page of the album, she has a series of captioned photos captioned as a dramatis personae, identifying the players in her life. Her self-portrait includes several nicknames &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9,399,414,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}