{"id":1845,"date":"2014-07-02T20:28:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T10:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ddixon.me\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2014-07-02T20:28:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T10:28:42","slug":"honestly-im-from-the-savage-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/?p=1845","title":{"rendered":"Honestly, I&#8217;m from the Savage Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ddixondotme.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/savages.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1935\" src=\"http:\/\/ddixondotme.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/savages.jpg?w=239\" alt=\"savages\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Yup, that&#8217;s right &#8230; secret is out, &#8220;Je suis de la Savage Islands&#8221;. Actually, let me tone this claim down a tad to, &#8220;I WAS from the Savage Islands&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>My mother and her forebears were savages, she begat a Savage-ling in 1962, in Auckland (an almost savage place).<\/p>\n<p>And then much to my dismay some smart bastard in their wisdom decided to rename the Savage Islands to <a title=\"Niue or Savage Island\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jps.auckland.ac.nz\/document\/\/Volume_2_1893\/Volume_2,_No.1,_March_1893\/Niue%3A_or_Savage_Island,_by_Edward_Tregear,_p_11-16\/p1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Niue Island<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So at some point of time, Google Earth would have proudly boasted five Savage Islands, and now there are only four, with one simply discounted as &#8216;formerly known as Savage Island&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare was wrong when he penned, inked or feathered the phrase, &#8220;A rose by any other name, would smell as sweet&#8221;. Names have power. Why do you think parents spend so much time on naming their babies,<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; look at me, I say &#8216;David&#8217;, and people immediately visualise &#8216;muscles and success&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ddixondotme.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/flag-of-niue.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1938\" src=\"http:\/\/ddixondotme.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/flag-of-niue.png\" alt=\"Flag of Niue\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a>I would have been known as the kid from the Savage Islands when I was at school. Everyone would have picked me to be to be in their rugby team, and begged me to protect them from the bullies. Instead of a yellow flag today, it could have been a skull, and cross-bones, black not yellow, and zombies being hacked to death by us native Savages.<\/p>\n<p>The name David was quite common in the 60&#8217;s and 70&#8217;s, likewise with other biblical names in the new testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, etc). The trend today appear to fashion names from a piece of fruit in the local supermarket, or some point off a compass &#8230; what&#8217;s with that?<\/p>\n<p>I should start giving human names to my fruit.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, must go and look for Poody (the cat) and Buubuu (the dog).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, that&#8217;s right &#8230; secret is out, &#8220;Je suis de la Savage Islands&#8221;. Actually, let me tone this claim down a tad to, &#8220;I WAS from the Savage Islands&#8221;. My mother and her forebears were savages, she begat a Savage-ling in 1962, in Auckland (an almost savage place). And then much to my dismay some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-to-cancer-and-back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}