{"id":8760,"date":"2002-10-10T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-10T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/10\/10\/thats-mr-i-am-to-you\/"},"modified":"2002-10-10T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-10T20:32:00","slug":"thats-mr-i-am-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/10\/thats-mr-i-am-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#039;s Mr I am to you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) &#8211; A man who wanted to change his<br \/>\nname to God chose a new name when a judge turned down his request. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>The former Charles Haffey&#8217;s new name is I Am who I<br \/>\nAm.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>The former Haffey said after his first choice was<br \/>\nrejected in April, he went to the Bible to find a backup. He drew on a passage<br \/>\nwhere Moses asks God who he is and hears: &#8220;I am who I am or I will be who I will<br \/>\nbe.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8220;That&#8217;s kind of wordy, so I&#8217;m just going for &#8216;I Am Who I<br \/>\nAm&#8217; as my full legal name,&#8221; he said. &#8220;My first name, of course, would be &#8216;I<br \/>\nAm.'&#8221;<\/font> [<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&amp;cid=816&amp;ncid=816&amp;e=2&amp;u=\/ap\/20021009\/ap_on_re_us\/god_s_name\">Full<br \/>\nstory<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) &#8211; A man who wanted to change his name to God chose a new name when a judge turned down his request. The former Charles Haffey&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}