{"id":12246,"date":"2020-09-28T06:37:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T11:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=12246"},"modified":"2020-09-28T06:37:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T11:37:41","slug":"more-than-one-way-to-read-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/28\/more-than-one-way-to-read-that\/","title":{"rendered":"More than One Way to Read That?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;I had a large client report.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report, or more accurately the client report, was what was large&#8211;not the client themselves. In this case, it is probably pretty clear that the word &#8220;large&#8221; does not refer to the client themselves. But ask yourself when reading any statement: is there another way to read that? Is there a different interpretation that is reasonable? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t get stuck on your first interpretation of a word, phrase, or sentence. Some items genealogists use are poorly edited for clarity, particularly 19th century county histories, &#8220;mug books&#8221; of biographies submitted by family members, and more newspapers than one may care to admit. If that&#8217;s the case, references to certain items may be ambiguous. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Always ask yourself: Is there another reasonable way to interpret this? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I had a large client report.&#8221; The report, or more accurately the client report, was what was large&#8211;not the client themselves. In this case, it is probably pretty clear that the word &#8220;large&#8221; does not refer to the client themselves. But ask yourself when reading any statement: is there another way to read that? Is [&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-12246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12246","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=12246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}