{"id":3200,"date":"2023-06-24T07:35:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T14:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jocularious.com\/?p=3200"},"modified":"2023-07-03T16:30:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T23:30:42","slug":"expecting-a-baby-boy-why-not-name-him-judas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/?p=3200","title":{"rendered":"Expecting a Baby Boy? Why Not Name Him Judas?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Fun Fact:\n<\/strong>Jesus didn\u2019t just\nhave one disciple named Judas, he had two. \nSeriously!  There was that infamous\nJudas Iscariot, the scoundrel that betrayed him, and a lesser-known Judas.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spent an afternoon at the University of Oregon library researching the second Judas, because I wanted to know more about him and his full name.\u00a0 It turns out his full name was, \u201cThe Other Judas.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you\nimagine being the other Judas?  All day\nlong, \u201cHey, I\u2019m not THAT Judas!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year,\nabout 25 babies in the US were named Judas. \nYikes!  Talk about a cross to\nbear!  First day of school, the teacher is\ncalling roll, \u201cJudas!  Judas!  Is Judas here?\u201d  Stunned look on all the classmates\u2019\nfaces.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I assume all the parents who named these 25 poor souls are currently doing hard time for sundry crimes of depravity \u2013 grave robbery, elderly abuse, wearing man-buns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Greek,\nthe name Judas means, \u201cLet him be praised.\u201d  This is the second biggest mistake the Greeks have\nmade after inventing those horrid little grape-leaf appetizers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is an old Johnny Cash song called, \u201cA Boy Named Sue,\u201d about a guy who named his son Sue because he wouldn\u2019t be around to raise him.\u00a0 (Obviously, a \u201cFather of the Year” contender.)\u00a0 His reasoning was that doing that would make his son tough and develop the necessary skills to survive.\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty sure the only thing it would do is sentence the kid to a lifetime of therapy.\u00a0 Same with \u201cJudas.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I asked\nChatGPT what I should title this column (seriously, I did).  It suggested:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJudas: The\nultimate parent-teacher conference conversation starter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judas?!  Can you imagine? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMom, Dad,\nthis is my new boyfriend, Judas!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s manager handing out nametags to new employees \u2013 \u201cHey, Judas, nothing personal, but we printed yours out as, \u201cThe J Man.\u201d\u00a0 Cool?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An\nannouncement over the elementary school PA system, \u201cThe winner of this year\u2019s Christmas\nCelebration costume contest is\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other\nhand, if my parents had named me Judas, I would have to admire their bold, independent,\nand unflinching world view.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I would\nchange my name to Jake. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fun Fact: Jesus didn\u2019t just have one disciple named Judas, he had two.  Seriously!  There was that infamous Judas Iscariot, the scoundrel that betrayed him, and a lesser-known Judas.  I spent an afternoon at the University of Oregon library researching the second Judas, because I wanted to know more about him and his full name.\u00a0 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[2],"tags":[1089,1088,646],"class_list":["post-3200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","tag-christian-humor","tag-judas-humor","tag-religious-humor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jocularious.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/surprised-baby.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3200"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3223,"href":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions\/3223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}