{"id":45,"date":"2006-02-06T20:22:14","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T04:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/?p=45"},"modified":"2006-02-06T20:39:37","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T04:39:37","slug":"my-last-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/archives\/45","title":{"rendered":"My Last Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I&#8217;ve been online I&#8217;ve had a really hard time trying to select a last name for my Sandra identity.  I&#8217;ve played around with several different ones but have never really felt happy with any of them.  So for the longest time I&#8217;ve been Sandra T. (as in TG or tranny), but I&#8217;m kind of tired of just having an initial.  <\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago I was thinking about just using my real last name, the one I was born with, which is Gibbons.  I actually feel pretty comfortable being Sandra Gibbons.  When I ask myself, &#8220;What would my last name be if I had been born female?&#8221;  Well, obviously it would be my family name.  I can also imagine it being the name of a librarian or school teacher, which totally fits into my fascination with the good girl in bondage fantasy.  (The funny thing is when you do a Google search there actually are several Sandra Gibbons&#8217;s out there who work in Academia.)<\/p>\n<p>One of my major goals in life is to be completely open and honest about my identity.  Using my real name seems consistent with that goal, but I wonder, am I being crazy?  Would this somehow come back to haunt me or cause problems?  It&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m actually legally changing my name to Sandra Gibbons (though that idea does really turn me on &#8211; even the more androgynous Sandy (or &#8220;Sandi&#8221;) would be really cool.)  The thing is, I find when I don&#8217;t hide myself, I&#8217;m always happier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I&#8217;ve been online I&#8217;ve had a really hard time trying to select a last name for my Sandra identity. I&#8217;ve played around with several different ones but have never really felt happy with any of them. So for the longest time I&#8217;ve been Sandra T. (as in TG or tranny), but I&#8217;m kind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/archives\/45\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Last Name<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sandra-here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}