{"id":2617,"date":"2002-11-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/11\/24\/2002-11-24-india-as-a-common-first-name-in-britain-and-usa\/"},"modified":"2002-11-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-24T12:00:00","slug":"2002-11-24-india-as-a-common-first-name-in-britain-and-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/11\/24\/2002-11-24-india-as-a-common-first-name-in-britain-and-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;India&#8221; as a Common First Name in Britain and USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.sify.com\/cgi-bin\/sifynews\/news\/content\/news_fullstory_v2.jsp article_oid=8784734&#038;page_no=1\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 18, 2002: In March 2003, Oxford Reference Online will be available to internet users. Of interest to Hindus is the Oxford Dictionary of First Names where India is listed as a common first name for children in Britain and the United States. The dictionary says, &#8220;India as a first name is presumably from the name of the subcontinent, and apparently taken into regular use as a result of its occurrence in &#8216;Gone with the Wind&#8217; (India Wilkes, a character in this 1939 classic movie on the American Civil War).&#8221; Along with the dictionary of first names, 99 other dictionaries, usage, quotations and subject reference books of the Oxford University Press will be available on the internet.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 18, 2002: In March 2003, Oxford Reference Online will be available to internet,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}