{"id":443,"date":"2026-02-20T11:35:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/?p=443"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:36:44","slug":"whats-in-a-name-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/whats-in-a-name-part-three\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a Name: Part Three- The Tom August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So now you&#8217;ve read about our <a href=\"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/2025\/10\/27\/whats-in-a-name-part-one-stage-names\/\">stage names<\/a> and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/2025\/11\/14\/whats-in-a-name-part-two-the-band-name\/\">band name<\/a>, so let me tell you the unusual connection to a real-life rum running vessel.<\/p>\n<p>As any good artist does, we googled our band name to make sure there wasn&#8217;t magically a Tommy August and the Rum Syndicate out there. Hey, you never know. To our surprise, an article popped up about a schooner named the Tom August. Schooners are Mimi&#8217;s favorite type of sailing vessel so we had to keep digging deeper. The article we were reading was just a list of possibly wrecked vessels lost during prohibition. It didn&#8217;t say much about the Tom August. It was just a name, type, and date.<\/p>\n<p>A little more internet sleuthing later and we found this book called\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=8gAtAgAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PT88&amp;dq=tom+august+rum+runner&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjGzae5uvrTAhWC5SYKHUS-AFQQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&amp;q=tom%20august&amp;f=false\">Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and in it were mentions of a rum running schooner called the Tom August that ran from the Caribbean to New Jersey for a crime syndicate. We both were in shock. Could the name be any more perfect? Tommy being from New Jersey, us living in the Caribbean, and Mimi&#8217;s affinity for rum and schooners&#8230; we took it as the sign we needed.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, Tommy August &amp; the Rum Syndicate was born!<\/p>\n<p>See you next time!<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-58\" src=\"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Sworn-to-fun-300x300.png\" alt=\"skull with crossed guitar and bass underneath to look like a pirate flag. reads Tommy August and the Rum Syndicate, sqorn to fun, loyal to Rum,\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Sworn-to-fun-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Sworn-to-fun-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Sworn-to-fun-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Sworn-to-fun.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now you&#8217;ve read about our stage names and the\u00a0band name, so let me tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1],"tags":[69,12,40,57],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-us","category-uncategorized","tag-about-us","tag-rum-syndicate","tag-the-rum-syndicate","tag-tommy-august"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}