{"id":210,"date":"2012-01-25T00:18:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T06:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeanschara.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2016-03-17T16:39:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T21:39:51","slug":"day-22-what-makes-me-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/day-22-what-makes-me-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 22: What Makes Me Different"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, come on. Didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you take high school biology? DNA. Deoxyribonucleic Acid. Life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s earliest code. So many possibilities, you only get just one, even with identical twins. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what makes me different. And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what makes you different. And you. And you. Well, you get the idea. If not? Go back to high school. That will help you remember what it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like to be different, because unlike then when you just thought<\/em> you were different, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll really be<\/em> different now.<\/p>\n

The prompt was going for something more colloquial, you say? Fine. My name makes me different. I am the only Jean Schara in the United States (and, quite possibly, the world). I became much more common when I took my ex-husband\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name when we first married. I guess that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why I took my name back when we divorced. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never cottoned to being common (and my mother didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I was ordinary either). On the other hand, several years ago when remarking to an author friend about another author\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work I was reading, she commented, that has to be a pseudonym. Nobody would have that name for real. I paused (not an obvious pause, because we were communicating via a chat program, but if she tracked time like I do on my displays, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure it was noticeable. I said (typed), \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You do realize if I used my married name, that would be my last name, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. For some reason, I find that amusing. Yes, if I used my married name and wrote romance, everyone would think my name was contrived to increase sales. Tee hee. (I have that domain name locked up, too, thank you very much. Just for when I want to use it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, come on. Didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you take high school biology? DNA. Deoxyribonucleic Acid. Life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s earliest code. So many possibilities, you only get just one, even with identical twins. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what makes me different. And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what makes you different. And you. And you. Well, you get the idea. If not? Go …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30-days-of-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}