{"id":108,"date":"2006-07-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-07-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T05:00:00","slug":"michael_gaither_the_john_smith_of_the_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/michael_gaither_the_john_smith_of_the_in\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Gaither: The John Smith of the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever Googled your name? Try it. You might get strange results. (Actually, using a word like &#8220;Google&#8221; as a verb is also strange, but I digress.)<\/p>\n<p>Right here, this is me, folks. It really is. But I wonder sometimes. When I put up this site, I was able to grab the domain &#8220;michaelgaither.com&#8221;, because mine is an unusual name, right?<\/p>\n<p>So I thought. Armed with Google, the name &#8220;michael gaither&#8221; seems  as common as John Smith:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>One fellow with my name is a <a href=\"http:\/\/boardnews.dpsk12.org\/stories\/storyReader$30\" target=\"_blank\">principal at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Denver<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Another Michael Gaither is a professional bowler back in Pennsylvania. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pba.com\/news\/features.asp?ID=498\" target=\"_blank\">This article documents how he was defeated in 2002 by a guy with the last name of Queen<\/a>. I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s more humiliating: Losing a bowling tournament, or losing to a man named Queen. (No offense to us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianmay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brian May<\/a> fans out there.)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Then there&#8217;s this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santa-cruz.com\/archive\/2000\/September\/21\/bay\/stories\/2bay.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Gaither who interviewed Buddy and Julie Miller for the Santa Cruz Sentinel<\/a>. Oh. Wait. That one&#8217;s really me. Great article, by the way. Check it out.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>My personal favorite, though, is the Michael Gaither from Indiana. Poor guy. Someone posted him at the top of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilchildsupport.com\/deadbeats\/michael_gaither.html\" target=\"_blank\">deliquent parent<\/a> list. For the record, I have never ever been to Indiana. (The man should be thankful. He used to appear at the top of a Google on our name. Now that I have music pages up, he&#8217;s not so promiment in the search results.)\n<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>I also found someone with my name who was arrested for phoning in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northeasttimes.com\/2003\/0430\/gaither.html\" target=\"_blank\">bomb threats in Philadelphia<\/a>. I&#8217;ve never been there, either. Honest.<\/li>\n<p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gets very weird, don&#8217;t it? I&#8217;d better stop. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll dig up other Michael Gaithers in a future entry. (Trust me. There&#8217;s lots of them.) For now, check out my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/music\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">music<\/a>. That&#8217;s why THIS Michael Gaither is here. And if you haven&#8217;t done so, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/contact\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">signup on my mailing list<\/a>, so you&#8217;ll know when and where Michael Gaither (the one who writes songs) is playing. <\/p>\n<p><center><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/\">Home<\/a><\/b><\/center><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Fmichael_gaither_the_john_smith_of_the_in%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=800&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:800px;height:30px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever Googled your name? Try it. You might get strange results. 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