{"id":103,"date":"2007-03-13T20:18:55","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T04:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=103"},"modified":"2008-02-26T15:42:21","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T23:42:21","slug":"politics-makes-strange-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"politics makes strange… something"},"content":{"rendered":"

Months ago I was idly Googling stuff, as I do now and again. I put in my great-great-grandfather’s name to see what would come up.<\/p>\n

What came up, eventually, was a family tree for Barack Obama. And that’s how I found out we’re distantly related. I had no idea what the exact relationship was till tonight, though.<\/p>\n

We are both descendants of Nathaniel FitzRandolph, 1642-1713 and we are something like ninth cousins. Woo hoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Months ago I was idly Googling stuff, as I do now and again. I put in my great-great-grandfather’s name to see what would come up. What came up, eventually, was a family tree for Barack Obama. And that’s how I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}