{"id":40,"date":"2004-03-28T00:37:19","date_gmt":"2004-03-28T05:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/?p=40"},"modified":"2008-01-03T22:59:35","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T04:59:35","slug":"this-tree-does-fork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/2004\/03\/28\/this-tree-does-fork\/","title":{"rendered":"This tree does fork!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been amazed by the response that my small, but livid fascination with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piotter.org\" target=\"_top\">genealogy<\/a> has garnered me.  The last name ain&#8217;t Smith or Jones, so it&#8217;s bound to be a tad easier than for those folks.  Still, I&#8217;ve met like minded relatives that have Googled their name and have stumbled upon my website.  <\/p>\n<p>  The responses from Germany have been interesting, but difficult to comprehend, since the mother tongue ain&#8217;t Deutsch no longer.  But I&#8217;ve recently been in contact with someone who claims that I may have &#8216;Royalty blood&#8217;.  Call me silly, but I don&#8217;t think that ancestors such as that would have been related to the same farmers in the family that immigrated here the end of the 19th century. <\/p>\n<p>  There has been some debate weather or not some relation had shoed Jesse James&#8217; Gang horses, which I guess is when many families liked to link their ancestors with sensational news or history of the day.  Interesting.  Also the claim that the father of modern gymnastics, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;safe=off&#038;q=Friedrich+Ludwig+Jahn&#038;btnG=Google+Search\" target=\"_top\">Friedrich Ludwig Jahn<\/a>, was also a member of the clan.<\/p>\n<p>  I guess only good, solid research and actual facts will justify what is fiction and what isn&#8217;t.    <\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">[Listening to:   Junkie Man  &#8211; Junkie Man &#8211;  (3:04)]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been amazed by the response that my small, but livid fascination with genealogy has garnered me. The last name ain&#8217;t Smith or Jones, so it&#8217;s bound to be a tad easier than for those folks. Still, I&#8217;ve met like minded relatives that have Googled their name and have stumbled upon my website. The responses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}