{"id":282147,"date":"2018-10-03T14:43:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T14:43:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-10-03T14:43:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T14:43:50","slug":"holmes-watson-and-first-names-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/03\/holmes-watson-and-first-names-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Holmes, Watson, and First Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/plaidadder.tumblr.com\/post\/178646270694\/holmes-watson-and-first-names\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">plaidadder<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So, if you have spent any time in the ACD canon fandom you will have encountered conversations about why Holmes and Watson always use each other\u2019s surnames and never each other\u2019s first names (or, as they would have put it,\u00a0\u201cChristian names\u201d) when speaking to each other, even in private. And if you have spent a LOT of time in the ACD canon fandom, you may have encountered conversations about whether this would change if hypothetically speaking they Declared Their Love or Became A Couple.<\/p>\n<p>So, in addition to what everyone else has to say on the subject, it occurred to me that it\u2019s significant that during the first of the three trials involving Oscar Wilde and the Marquess of Queensberry\u2013the one where Queensberry was the defendant\u2013there\u2019s a whole thing in Sir Edward Carson\u2019s cross-examination of Wilde about Christian names.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/plaidadder.tumblr.com\/post\/178646270694\/holmes-watson-and-first-names\" class=\"tmblr-truncated-link read_more\" target=\"_blank\">Keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>plaidadder: So, if you have spent any time in the ACD canon fandom you will have encountered conversations about why Holmes and Watson always use each other\u2019s surnames and never each other\u2019s first names (or, as they would have put it,\u00a0\u201cChristian names\u201d) when speaking to each other, even in private. And if you have spent &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/03\/holmes-watson-and-first-names-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Holmes, Watson, and First Names&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}