{"id":2286,"date":"2009-03-20T08:05:46","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T13:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2009-03-20T08:05:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T13:05:46","slug":"id-change-my-na","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/id-change-my-na\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;d change my name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/20\/nyregion\/20nyc.html?_r=2&#038;scp=10&#038;sq=albany&#038;st=cse\"><I>NY Times<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMr. Ponzi, 65, is a retired businessman living in Watervliet, N.Y., near Albany. He has the same name as, but is not related to, <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/15\/ponzi-the-schemer-evoked-once-again\/\">the con man, who died in 1949.<\/a> When he was younger, Mr. Ponzi said by phone, people often asked if he was connected to the swindler. \u201cThen it went into a lull,\u201d he said. \u201cUntil this idiot.\u201d<br \/>\nThat would be Bernard Madoff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Poor guy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the NY Times: Mr. Ponzi, 65, is a retired businessman living in Watervliet, N.Y., near Albany. He has the same name as, but is not related to, the con man, who died in 1949. When he was younger, Mr. Ponzi said by phone, people often asked if he was connected to the swindler. \u201cThen&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/id-change-my-na\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;d change my name<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}