{"id":13386,"date":"2021-05-02T21:51:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T02:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=13386"},"modified":"2021-05-02T21:51:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T02:51:32","slug":"i-dont-know-my-own-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/02\/i-dont-know-my-own-age\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Know My Own Age"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In reading through Civil War pension applications, the one thing that amazes me is the number of people who really didn&#8217;t know when they were born. Some people did know their date of birth and gave their age consistently. Others apparently only knew their approximate age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is that why Grandpa&#8217;s age varies from one census record to another?\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In reading through Civil War pension applications, the one thing that amazes me is the number of people who really didn&#8217;t know when they were born. Some people did know their date of birth and gave their age consistently. Others apparently only knew their approximate age. Is that why Grandpa&#8217;s age varies from one census [&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-13386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13386","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=13386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}