{"id":296,"date":"2012-02-11T06:09:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T14:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/?p=296"},"modified":"2012-02-11T07:52:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T15:52:11","slug":"no-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"No Match"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week I met a happy young man with a lovely smile and radiant face.\u00a0 He helped me with some work\u00a0and then I\u00a0asked\u00a0his name.\u00a0 He\u00a0said, “Saddam Hussein.”<\/p>\n

Taken aback and\u00a0certainly not expecting to hear that name I blurted, “Are you kidding me?”<\/p>\n

He laughed and said, “No, that is my real name!”<\/p>\n

Still stuck on the name,\u00a0even though I should not be, I\u00a0continued, “Why did your parents name you that?\u00a0 Is your family name, Hussein, and\u00a0they\u00a0gave you the first name of Saddam and\u00a0just by chance it matched up?”<\/p>\n

He smiled and answered, “My father liked Saddam Hussein.\u00a0 My family name is different.\u00a0\u00a0I am called\u00a0by my first and middle name together.\u00a0 Everyone calls me, Saddam Hussein.”<\/p>\n

Suddenly I felt like I had asked a stupid question. It\u00a0was obvious that he was named after someone his father or mother liked, admired, or respected.\u00a0 However, seeing his radiant face and then hearing that name matched up with it had derailed my thought process.<\/p>\n

My mind wondered back to my 7th grade English Literature class and\u00a0the lesson from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet\u00a0which went, “What’s in a name?\u00a0 That which we call a rose.\u00a0 By any other name would smell as sweet…”<\/p>\n

Ah, yes, Shakespeare was right!\u00a0\u00a0A person’s name doesn’t matter as it doesn’t change who they are.<\/p>\n

Shaking myself back on track,\u00a0I firmly stated, “Well, let me tell you with 100% confirmation, that you are nothing like that man!\u00a0 No match.”<\/p>\n

He laughed and nodded in agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week I met a happy young man with a lovely smile and radiant face.\u00a0 He helped me with some work\u00a0and then I\u00a0asked\u00a0his name.\u00a0 He\u00a0said, “Saddam Hussein.” Taken aback and\u00a0certainly not expecting to hear that name I blurted, “Are you kidding me?” He laughed and said, “No, that is my real name!” Still stuck on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,10],"tags":[255,31,165,163,161,162,164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensufi.com\/nano\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}