{"id":1618512,"date":"2024-04-19T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p0hrcz9v"},"modified":"2024-04-19T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T00:30:00","slug":"heart-and-soul-should-i-change-my-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/04\/19\/heart-and-soul-should-i-change-my-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart and Soul: Should I change my name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if you carry an inherited surname that you feel is profoundly un-Christian? Should you keep it or change it? Robert Beckford is going through this dilemma. His surname is a slave name, a brand of ownership passed down from his enslaved African ancestors in Jamaica. Over time, Robert has grown deeply uncomfortable with the meaning of this name and now wants to find a more spiritual alternative. He embarks on a journey of self-discovery, considering whether he should change or keep his inherited name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0hrcz9v\">The Documentary Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if you carry an inherited surname that you feel is profoundly un-Christian? Should you keep it or change it? Robert Beckford is going through this dilemma. His surname is a slave name, a brand of ownership passed down from his enslaved African anc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1618513,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618512\/revisions\/1618513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}