{"id":143,"date":"2009-03-02T09:55:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T09:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web02.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters2\/archives\/143"},"modified":"2015-05-24T06:48:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T06:48:47","slug":"what-does-my-name-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/143","title":{"rendered":"What does my name mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My name is Chan Luk Yee.  But what does my name mean?
 First, ‘Chan’ is my father’s surname.  It is a family name.  ‘Luk’ sounds mostly like ‘Lok’ but I don’t know why my name is spelt ‘Luk’.  Maybe this makes my name special!  Then, ‘Yee’ means comfortable, happy and free.  ‘Luk’ plus ‘Yee’ mean a river in a forest.  But when we say these words in Chinese, they have the same sound as ‘a happy child’.  Wouldn’t it sound strange when I get older?
 Lastly, ‘Phoebe’ comes from my birthplace – Fiji.  Don’t they sound alike?  ‘Phoebe’ means a shiny thing and an illustrious person.  Wow, wonderful!  Also, it means the God of the Moon from Greece.
 My mum may want me to be a happy person so every character in my name means ‘happy’.  Now, I am a cheerful person.  Do you think so?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My name is Chan Luk Yee. But what does my name meanFirst, ‘Chan’ is my father’s surname. It is a family name. ‘Luk’ sounds mostly like ‘Lok’ but I don’t know why my name is spelt ‘Luk’. Maybe this makes my name special! Then, ‘Yee&rs.........Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en","schoolyear-7"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2486,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/2486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}