{"id":10118,"date":"2018-10-09T12:48:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T18:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=10118"},"modified":"2018-10-10T11:15:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T17:15:52","slug":"learned-hands-family-nickname-jowly-pips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=10118","title":{"rendered":"Learned Hand&#8217;s family nickname &#8220;Jowly Pips&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across a C-span video of Professor Constance Jordan discussing her grandfather, Judge Billings Learned Hand. \u00a0She remarks at one point in the video that Judge Hand&#8217;s family nickname was &#8220;Jowly Pips,&#8221; which was shortened to &#8220;J.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My grandfather, whom we called J &#8212; by the way, it was not because he was Judge that we called him J. \u00a0We called him J because everyone in the family had nicknames, and his nickname was Jowly Pips and it was shortened to J. \u00a0Don&#8217;t ask me why. \u00a0That is what it was.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Professor Constance Jordan, granddaughter of Judge Learned Hand.<\/p>\n<p>Link to video:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?316757-1\/judge-learned-hand&amp;start=828\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across a C-span video of Professor Constance Jordan discussing her grandfather, Judge Billings Learned Hand. \u00a0She remarks at one point in the video that Judge Hand&#8217;s family nickname was &#8220;Jowly Pips,&#8221; which was shortened to &#8220;J.&#8221; My grandfather, whom we called J &#8212; by the way, it was not because he was Judge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10118"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10123,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10118\/revisions\/10123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}