{"id":10556,"date":"2019-09-10T09:17:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10556"},"modified":"2019-09-10T08:30:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T13:30:49","slug":"a-little-genealogy-contemplation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/10\/a-little-genealogy-contemplation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Genealogy Contemplation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/riley-contemplate.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10557\" width=\"372\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/riley-contemplate.jpg 676w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/riley-contemplate-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><figcaption>Riley&#8217;s thinking&#8230;or wanting me to think he&#8217;s thinking.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes you just need to think about what you have found, what you don&#8217;t know, and what you want to know. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It can be easy to jump online and immediately search the minute we find something new or have a flash of insight. But sometimes it&#8217;s best to get away from the constant availability of &#8220;searching,&#8221; the constant rush to &#8220;find something new,&#8221; and the seemingly endless online barrage of messages and communications that demand our attention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And just to think.  And not to react.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think about what we know and realize there are things that we don&#8217;t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think about how accurate what we know really is and make a plan to learn more about those things that we don&#8217;t and, perhaps most importantly, to also learn more about those things that we think we know. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When was the last time you worked on a genealogy problem for at least an hour without spending part of that time &#8220;searching&#8221; the internet or accessing &#8220;new information&#8221; on your computer? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you just need to think about what you have found, what you don&#8217;t know, and what you want to know. It can be easy to jump online and immediately search the minute we find something new or have a flash of insight. But sometimes it&#8217;s best to get away from the constant availability of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}