{"id":200,"date":"2005-04-12T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-12T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/technology\/origins_of_bluetooth.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"origins_of_bluetooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2005\/04\/12\/origins_of_bluetooth","title":{"rendered":"Origins of Bluetooth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Maybe I&#8217;m the last one to know, but I just discovered the origin of the name &#8220;Bluetooth.&#8221; According to <a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.cnet.com\/4520-6454_7-5140288-1.html\">CNet&#8217;s Quick Guide to Bluetooth Headsets<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> What&#8217;s in a name?<br \/> In case you were wondering, Bluetooth gets its name from a 10th-century Danish king, Harald Blatand (or Bluetooth) who unified Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. According to legend, he had an affinity for teeth-staining blueberries. Oh, and the logo combines the runic alphabetic characters for H and B. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> I thought that was pretty cool. I had always assumed it was just a fanciful made-up name. <\/p>\n<p> (By the way, this entry obviously follows from the last few&#8212;with a newborn baby, the more hands-free and cordless appliances you have, the better!) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I&#8217;m the last one to know, but I just discovered the origin of the name &#8220;Bluetooth.&#8221; According to CNet&#8217;s Quick Guide to Bluetooth Headsets: What&#8217;s in a name? In case you were wondering, Bluetooth gets its name from a 10th-century Danish king, Harald Blatand (or Bluetooth) who unified Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}