{"id":305,"date":"2006-07-12T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=305"},"modified":"2006-07-12T07:00:34","modified_gmt":"2006-07-12T11:00:34","slug":"the-tao-of-steve-harper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"The Tao Of Steve (Harper)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Harper and the whole “Steve” thing got quite a bit of play last week and I think my view on this counts somewhat since my name is Steve.<\/p>\n

Now I must add, my legal name is Steve. (not Stephen or Steven) and every conversation with an administrator who took information inevitably ended up like this.<\/p>\n

Admin: First name?
\nMe: Steve
\nAdmin: Is that with a V or a PH?
\nMe: I said Steve, not Stephen<\/em><\/p>\n

And I would then proceed to receive a dirty look. That was the only negative.<\/p>\n

Positive Number 1 <\/strong><\/p>\n

There is this Indie movie called The Tao Of Steve<\/a> which an old co-worker told me about.<\/p>\n

The “Steve” whose philosophy is espoused in Jenniphr Goodman’s indie film is every studly Steve who ever lived in movies, Steve McQueen being the prime example.<\/p>\n

These are the men who never seemed to care about getting the girl, but who always got them anyway. “Steve is the prototypical cool American male,” says Dex (Donal Logue), the film’s protagonist and chief advocate of the Tao of Steve.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a really good feel good movie for the average guy and worth a rental.<\/p>\n

Positive Number 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then there is the whole one syllable angle. One syllable names just sound “cooler” (in general). In multicultural Canada, only Stefano might be slightly cooler.<\/p>\n

Positive Number 3 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Moving from a 7 letter name to a 5 letter name means less paper so it is more environmentally friendly. (ok, that one’s stretching it)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephen Harper and the whole “Steve” thing got quite a bit of play last week and I think my view on this counts somewhat since my name is Steve. Now I must add, my legal name is Steve. (not Stephen or Steven) and every conversation with an administrator who took information inevitably ended up like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,47,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-personal","category-politics-federal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}