{"id":1345,"date":"2007-10-20T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larelle.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/20\/what-do-you-call-it"},"modified":"2007-10-20T21:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T21:05:00","slug":"why-antipodean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=1345","title":{"rendered":"Why ‘Antipodean – The Right Side Up’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was sitting around waiting for my turn on the Internet (yes, we are a one computer household – although I can write posts via my mobile phone) watching Em reading RSS feeds of blogs when I was noticing that most peoples blogs have “catchy” names, whereas I had the rather bland “Larelle’s Blog”. I was wondering what made these people choose a somewhat obscure name for their blog and so I thought to myself “what kind of ‘catchy’ title would I use for my blog?”. I use to stick with “Larelle’s Blog” because I was worried people who visit wouldn’t realise it was my blog, but the people who are coming to my blog from www.larelle.co.uk<\/a> SHOULD know it’s me, so I thought “why not”! And so here’s what I came up with “Antipodean – The Right Side Up”. Don’t ask me why. I was just sitting there still waiting my turn, and it came into my head. I just like the word Antipodean (and that’s what us Aussies and Kiwis get called in the UK). I also thought that although I am Antipodean, I’m now (metaphorically) the right side up. I suppose I could’ve went for something inane like “Down Under Girl” or “Upside Down Girl”…but I wanted something arty-farty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was sitting around waiting for my turn on the Internet (yes, we are a one computer household – although I can write posts via my mobile phone) watching Em reading RSS feeds of blogs when I was noticing that most peoples blogs have “catchy” names, whereas I had the rather bland “Larelle’s Blog”. I … <\/p>\n

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