{"id":28707,"date":"2026-09-03T17:06:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T22:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28707"},"modified":"2026-09-03T17:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T22:06:35","slug":"great-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28707","title":{"rendered":"Great Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

It used to be that when you tried to recall the names of the five Great Lakes, you might resort to a mnemonic. Maybe something like H.O.M.E.S. (for Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior).<\/p>\n

Or perhaps you would use a sentence like “Super Man Helps Every One.” Or maybe you would just give up and look it up on a map.<\/p>\n

But now, thanks to the wisdom of our Supreme Leader, we don’t need to do any of that. The new naming convention is super easy to remember, as you can see from this official White House map:
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\nAnd just in case you still need an acronym, here’s a handy-dandy mnemonic that seems to fit the mood: “Arrgh arrgh arrgh arrgh aaaarrrggghhh!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It used to be that when you tried to recall the names of the five Great Lakes, you might resort to a mnemonic. Maybe something like H.O.M.E.S. (for Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior). Or perhaps you would use a sentence like “Super Man Helps Every One.” Or maybe you would just give up and look … Continue reading “Great Lakes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28707"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28724,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28707\/revisions\/28724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}